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

Author:   Seth C. Bruggeman
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   25 February 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Seth C. Bruggeman
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint:   University of Massachusetts Press
Weight:   0.439kg
ISBN:  

9781625346230


ISBN 10:   1625346239
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   25 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"By showing how the entanglements of race, place, and wealth have played out at Boston National Historic Park, Bruggeman helps to clarify how racialized power reproduces itself and how it is sedimented in institutional practices of preservation and commemoration.--Cathy Stanton, author of The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City Based on exhaustive research and written in a lively, accessible style, Lost on the Freedom Trail provides valuable insight into the profitability of preservation and heritage tourism, and the synergies and tensions created from establishing a national historic park within a living urban center.""--Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, coeditor of Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival"


"""By showing how the entanglements of race, place, and wealth have played out at Boston National Historic Park, Bruggeman helps to clarify how racialized power reproduces itself and how it is sedimented in institutional practices of preservation and commemoration.""--Cathy Stanton, author of The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City ""Based on exhaustive research and written in a lively, accessible style, Lost on the Freedom Trail provides valuable insight into the profitability of preservation and heritage tourism, and the synergies and tensions created from establishing a national historic park within a living urban center.""--Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, coeditor of Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival"


By showing how the entanglements of race, place, and wealth have played out at Boston National Historic Park, Bruggeman helps to clarify how racialized power reproduces itself and how it is sedimented in institutional practices of preservation and commemoration.--Cathy Stanton, author of The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City Based on exhaustive research and written in a lively, accessible style, Lost on the Freedom Trail provides valuable insight into the profitability of preservation and heritage tourism, and the synergies and tensions created from establishing a national historic park within a living urban center. --Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, coeditor of Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival


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SETH C. BRUGGEMAN is associate professor of history at Temple University and author of Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.

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