Inventing New England

1997-11-17 History

Author : Dona Brown
Release : 1997-11-17
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Inventing New England written by Dona Brown. This book was released on 1997-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.

Creating New England Villages

1998 Crafts & Hobbies

Author : Evan J. Kern
Release : 1998
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 839/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Creating New England Villages written by Evan J. Kern. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create charming and historically accurate miniature buildings from New England's past. Easy instructions explain every step in the process--from cutting and gluing to coloring and finishing. Projects include a sugarhouse, covered bridge, Cape Cod house, church, lighthouse, gristmill, and more. 36 color photos, 38 drawings.

Imagining New England

2003-01-14 History

Author : Joseph A. Conforti
Release : 2003-01-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 066/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Imagining New England written by Joseph A. Conforti. This book was released on 2003-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.

Inventing New England's Slave Paradise

1998 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Robert K. Fitts
Release : 1998
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Inventing New England's Slave Paradise written by Robert K. Fitts. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many 19th and 20th century historians have argued that Northern slavery was mild and that master/slave relations were relatively harmonious. Yet, Northern slavery, like Southern, was characterized by the conflict between the masters' desire to control their slaves and the slaves' resistance to this domination. For a variety of political, social, and intellectual reasons, 19th and 20th century historians ignored this inherent conflict in discussions of Northern slavery. Fitts' research focuses on how and why historians sanitized the history of slavery in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and then shows the inadequacy of these interpretations by examining several of the planters' and slaves' conflicting strategies of control and resistance. Topics include how planters used physical punishment, legislation, and the threat of sale in an attempt to control their slaves, and how slaves resisted through violence, running away, and non-violent crime. Fitts also examines the plantation landscape as a site of symbolic contestation and includes a chapter on slave names. (Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1995; revised with new preface)

Inventing New Orleans

2001 History

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 536/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Inventing New Orleans written by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of writings from the author who created America's notion of New Orleans as an exotic and mysterious place

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