Overview

"The story of one of the Boston area s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and residents have influenced American culture When the Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Harvard University, was also a place that reflected and instilled an imperative to preserve and protect nature in a rapidly industrializing culture lessons that would influence the creation of Central Park, the cemetery at Gettysburg, and the National Parks system. Even today this urban wildlife habitat and nationally recognized hotspot for migratory songbirds continues to connect visitors with nature and serves as a model for sustainable landscape practices. Beyond Mount Auburn s prescient focus on conservation, it also reflects the impact of Transcendentalism and the progressive spirit in American life seen in advances in science, art, and religion and in social reform movements. In ""The Lively Place,"" Stephen Kendrick celebrates this vital piece of our nation s history, as he tells the story of Mount Auburn s founding, its legacy, and the many influential Americans interred there, from religious leaders to abolitionists, poets, and reformers."""

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Author:   Stephen Kendrick
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780807066294

ISBN 10:   080706629
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   05 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Prologue: Encountering Bourdieu 1 1. Sociology Is a Combat Sport: From Parsons to Bourdieu 18 2. The Poverty of Philosophy: Marx Meets Bourdieu 33 3. Cultural Domination: Gramsci Meets Bourdieu 59 4. Colonialism and Revolution: Fanon Meets Bourdieu 76 5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Freire Meets Bourdieu 94 6. The Antinomies of Feminism: Beauvoir Meets Bourdieu 110 7. The Sociological Imagination: Mills Meets Bourdieu 133 8. The Twofold Truth of Labor: Burawoy Meets Bourdieu 148 9. The Weight of the World: Bourdieu Meets Bourdieu 172 Conclusion: The Limits of Symbolic Violence 191 Notes 201 References 209 Index 217

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In The Lively Place, Stephen Kendrick revives Emerson, Fuller, Howe, and other luminaries to take us on a delightful tour of a graveyard that is one of America s most beautiful public spaces. Eve LaPlante, author of Marmee & Louisa

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Stephen Kendrick is senior minister at the First Church in Boston, Unitarian Universalist. He is the author or coauthor of Holy Clues- The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes, Sarah's Long Walk- The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, Douglass and Lincoln, and the novel Night Watch.

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