Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) |
Contents |
Preface; 1. The Bounds of History; 2. How the Past Became a Place; 3. The Transient Nature of All Things Sublunary; 4. Collecting Utopia; 5. The Past Is a Rural Landscape; 6. Commemorative Hauntings; 7. Beyond Storytelling; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region's vanishing tob |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Archaeology -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Archaeology -- Maryland
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Historic sites -- Psychological aspects
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Maryland
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Collective memory.
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Antiquities in popular culture -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Antiquities in popular culture -- Maryland
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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HISTORY -- General.
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Antiquities in popular culture
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Archaeology
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Collective memory
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
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Historic sites -- Psychological aspects
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SUBJECT |
Saint Marys City (Md.) -- History
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Maryland
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Maryland -- Saint Marys City
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United States -- Chesapeake Bay Region
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2012020591 |
ISBN |
9781572338883 |
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1572338881 |
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1282166484 |
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9781282166486 |
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9786613809551 |
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6613809551 |
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