| Description |
1 online resource (x, 291 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Series |
Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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| Contents |
I. Corporate properties. Capital plans: ancient monuments in public squares ; Sacred forms: public buildings and urban improvements. -- II. Commercial sites. The business of preservation: Antiquarian views and commercial enterprise ; Moral real estate: sacred historic space and the politics of speculation. -- III. Domestic spaces. Civic housekeeping: voluntary association and domestic economy ; Ancestral estates: patrimonial property and rural improvement ; Epilogue. Rethinking Mount Vernon and legacies of preservation |
| Summary |
"This book discusses historic preservation in the early United States. It argues that the history of preservation is a crucial component of the history of American capitalism. U.S. residents shaped the landscape of "modern" capitalism by cultivating dynamic forms of permanence as well as architectural innovation, new construction, and urbanization. This view of the early national built environment disrupts the clean narrative of the privatization of public space to which preservationists, environmentalists, and urbanists sometimes subscribe. Early U.S. advocates of architectural preservation claimed to limit the influence of market mentality on the built environment. But their methods of securing environmental permanence have confounded distinctions between public and private since the eighteenth century. To confront the history of this entanglement is to see historical consciousness at the heart of defining commodity production, consumption, and the value of labor in the past and in the present"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Boston's Old Brich Church |
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Cumberland MD |
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George Washington headquarters Newburgh NY |
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Marietta Ohio mounds |
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Mount Vernon |
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Philadelphia's statehouse |
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Winchester VA |
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historic preservation activities |
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historic preservation studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Historic preservation -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
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Historic preservation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
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Historic preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History
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Historic preservation -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- United States -- History
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- United States -- History
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HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
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Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration
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Historic preservation -- Economic aspects
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Historic preservation -- Social aspects
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019045116 |
| ISBN |
9780812296990 |
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0812296990 |
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