Lost on the Freedom Trail : The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston /

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"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...

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Main Author: Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > National Park Service.
United States. > National Park Service > History > 20th century.
Urban renewal.
Race relations.
National parks and reserves > Social aspects.
Historiography.
Historic sites.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Urban renewal > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Massachusetts > Boston.
National parks and reserves > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston.
Historic sites > Massachusetts > Boston.
Massachusetts > Boston > Freedom Trail.
Massachusetts > Boston > Boston National Historical Park.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Boston (Mass.) > Race relations.
Boston (Mass.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Historiography.
Freedom Trail (Boston, Mass.) > History.
Boston National Historical Park (Boston, Mass.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781613768983

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