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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bruggeman, Seth C. (1975-....)
Titre(s) : Lost on the Freedom Trail [Texte imprimé] : the National Park Service and urban renewal in postwar Boston / Seth C. Bruggeman
Publication : Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii-301 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Public history in historical perspective
Lien à la collection : Public history in historical perspective
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Sites historiques -- Boston (Mass., États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Tourisme culturel -- Boston (Mass., États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Rénovation urbaine -- Boston (Mass., États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Mémoire collective -- Boston (Mass., États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Relations interethniques -- Boston (Mass., États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass., États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Etats-Unis. National park service -- 1945-1990
Indice(s) Dewey :
974.461 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Boston
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-62534-623-0 (br.). - ISBN 1625346239 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47453648j
Notice n° :
FRBNF47453648
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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
