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Author:   James M. Lindgren
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781479822577

ISBN 10:   1479822574
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   18 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: ""Salvation on the East River"" 1 ""Eloquent Reminders of Sailing and Shipbuilding"" 2 ""The Kind of Civilized Vision That New Yorkers Are Not Supposed to Have"" 3 ""Ships, the Heart of the Story"" 4 ""Look at Our Waterfront! Just Look"" 5 ""A Million People Came Away Better Human Beings"" 6 ""Shopping Is the Chief Cultural Activity in the United States"" 7 ""They Tore Down Paradise, and Put Up a Shopping Mall"" 8 ""The Museum Was Intellectually and Financially Bankrupt"" 9 ""It's Tough When You Have a Museum in a Mall"" 10 ""A Ship Is a Hole in the Water into Which You Pour Money"" 11 ""Sometimes You Just Can't Get a Break"" Conclusion: ""Nobody Knows That We're Here""Notes Index About the Author"

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Since 1997, SUNY professor James M. Lindgren has been researching the history of the South Street Seaport Historic District, the museum that championed its preservation and became its steward, and the complicated relationships that eventually emerged between that organization, the City of New York, the city's economic development offices, and the 'Festival Marketplace' that was brought to the district in 1983. . . . This timely book will be sure to prove essential as we all work to unravel the Seaport's tangled past and set it back on the right path. -New Amsterdam Public Market Association,

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James M. Lindgren is Professor of History at SUNY Plattsburgh, and the author of Preserving the Old Dominion (1993) and Preserving Historic New England (1995).

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