Lost on the Freedom Trail - The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston

Info autore

SETH C. BRUGGEMAN is associate professor of history at Temple University and author of Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.

Riassunto

Argues that Boston National Historical Park’s 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Seth C Bruggeman, Seth C. Bruggeman
• Editore: University of Massachusetts
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.02.2022
• EAN: 9781625346230
• ISBN: 978-1-62534-623-0
• Pagine: 344
• Serie: Public History in Historical Perspective; Public History in Historical P
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro