The spirit of Colonial Williamsburg : ghosts and interpreting the recreated past /

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"On any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museum and private companies have facilitated these hunts, offering year-round ghost tours. Critics have called these excursions a cash grab, but in tru...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pirok, Alena, 1988- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Series:Public history in historical perspective
Subjects:
Historic sites > Interpretive programs > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Ghost tours > Social aspects > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Ghost stories, American > Social aspects > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Folklore and history > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Public history > Methodology.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects > Virginia > Williamsburg.
Folklore and history.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects.
Historic sites > Interpretive programs.
Historiography.
HISTORY / General
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.) > History.
Williamsburg (Va.) > Historiography.
Virginia > Williamsburg.
Virginia > Williamsburg > Colonial Williamsburg.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The age of ghosts in Virginia
  • Restoring the "ghosts of the past"
  • The question of interpretation
  • A magnificent stage setting
  • The spirits of '76 come alive
  • Conjectural Williamsburg
  • The rehaunting of Williamsburg.

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