| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Public history in historical perspective |
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Public history in historical perspective.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Lost on the Freedom Trail -- Remembering the Revolution in old and new Boston -- Imagining a National Historical Park for Boston -- Losing control of the agenda -- Planning a park for "modern Boston and modern America" -- The problem with history, the problem with race -- Managing memory in the new economy -- Afterword. Lost and found on the Freedom Trail |
| Summary |
"Boston National Historical Park is one of America's most popular heritage destinations, drawing in millions of visitors annually. Tourists flock there to see the site of the Boston Massacre, to relive Paul Revere's midnight ride, and to board Old Ironsides-all of these bound together by the iconic Freedom Trail, which traces the city's revolutionary saga. Making sense of the Revolution, however, was never the primary aim for the planners who reimagined Boston's heritage landscape after the Second World War. Seth C. Bruggeman demonstrates that the Freedom Trail was always largely a tourist gimmick, devised to lure affluent white Americans into downtown revival schemes, its success hinging on a narrow vision of the city's history run through with old stories about heroic white men. When Congress pressured the National Park Service to create this historical park for the nation's bicentennial celebration in 1976, these ideas seeped into its organizational logic, precluding the possibility that history might prevail over gentrification and profit"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
United States. National Park Service -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
United States. National Park Service fast |
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Historic sites -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Heritage tourism -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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National parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Collective memory -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY / General
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Collective memory
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Heritage tourism -- Social aspects
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Historic sites
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Historiography
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National parks and reserves -- Social aspects
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Race relations
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Urban renewal
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| SUBJECT |
Boston National Historical Park (Boston, Mass.) -- History
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Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass.) -- History
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Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Historiography
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Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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Massachusetts -- Boston -- Boston National Historical Park
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Massachusetts -- Boston -- Freedom Trail
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021022887 |
| ISBN |
9781613768990 |
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1613768990 |
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1613768982 |
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9781613768983 |
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