Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism, and the Remaking of Memory

by James M. Lindgren

Book Overview

By the first years of the twentieth century the memory of old-time New England was in danger. What had once been a land of small towns populated by tradition-minded Yankees was now becoming almost unrecognizable with a floodtide of immigrants and the constant change of a modernizing society. At the same time, cities such as Boston, Portsmouth, and Salem were bursting at the seams with factories, high-rises, and uncontrollable growth. During a period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093631
• ISBN13: 9780195093636
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"