The Lowell experiment : public history in a postindustrial city / Cathy Stanton.

In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanton, Cathy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2006]
Subjects:
LEADER 04909cam a22005654a 4500
001 b1537754
003 CaEvIII
008 060130t20062006maumb b a001 0 eng
005 20231030142635.8
010 |a  2006003180 
015 |a GBA709599  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 013564424  |2 Uk 
019 |a 1022710102  |a 1064735618  |a 1074425269 
020 |a 1558495460 
020 |a 9781558495463 
020 |a 1558495479  |q (pbk.) 
020 |a 9781558495470  |q (pbk.) 
024 3 |a 9781558495470 
024 3 |a 9781558495463 
035 |a (OCoLC)63297733  |z (OCoLC)1022710102  |z (OCoLC)1064735618  |z (OCoLC)1074425269 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |c DLC  |d BAKER  |d C#P  |d YDXCP  |d IXA  |d BTCTA  |d PUL  |d IG#  |d LVB  |d CZL  |d IAK  |d HEBIS  |d CDX  |d OCLCQ  |d YUS  |d BDX  |d OCLCA  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d ZCU  |d FIE  |d ICN  |d OCLCA  |d SNN  |d UKMGB  |d EUQ  |d OCLCQ  |d UtOrBLW 
042 |a pcc 
043 |a n-us-ma 
049 |a SCLL 
050 4 |a HT177.L73 S83 2006 
100 1 |a Stanton, Cathy.  |0 n 95049133  
245 1 4 |a The Lowell experiment :  |b public history in a postindustrial city /  |c Cathy Stanton. 
264 1 |a Amherst :  |b University of Massachusetts Press,  |c [2006] 
264 4 |c ©2006 
300 |a xvi, 299 pages :  |b illustrations, map ;  |c 24 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
340 |p illustration  |p map  |2 rdaill 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue: The map in the museum -- Part I: History, performance, ethnography. Lowell and the public history movement ; An ethnographer in public historical space -- Part II: Three tours of Lowell. The run of the mill ; A walking tour of the acre ; Historic preservation as economic development -- Part III: Public history in Lowell. Rituals pf reconnection: work as history and history as work in postindustrial Lowell ; Feasting on Lowell: authority and accommodation in Lowell's new cultural economy -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Visitor survey summary, Lowell National Historical Park, Summer 2001/2002. 
520 |a In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial economy. The Lowell Experiment explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial yet ambiguous role in that process. The book focuses on Lowell National Historical Park, the flagship project of Lowell's new cultural economy. When it was created in 1978, the park broke new ground with its sweeping reinterpretations of labor, immigrant, and women's history. It served as a test site for the ideas of practitioners in the new field of public history a field that links the work of professionally trained historians with many different kinds of projects in the public realm. The Lowell Experiment takes an anthropological approach to public history in Lowell, showing it as a complex cultural performance shaped by local memory, the imperatives of economic redevelopment, and tourist rituals all serving to locate the park's audiences and workers more securely within a changing and uncertain new economy characterized by growing inequalities and new exclusions. The paradoxical dual role of Lowell's public historians as both interpreters of and contributors to that new economy raises important questions about the challenges and limitations facing academically trained scholars in contemporary American culture. As a long-standing and well-known example of "culture-led re-development, " Lowell offers an outstanding site for exploring questions of concern to those in the fields of public and urban history, urban planning, and tourism studies.--  |c Provided by Publisher. 
650 0 |a Urban renewal  |z Massachusetts  |z Lowell.  |0 sh 85141324  
650 0 |a Urban anthropology  |z Massachusetts  |z Lowell.  |0 sh 85141305  
650 0 |a Deindustrialization  |z Massachusetts  |z Lowell  |x History.  |0 sh 95004418  
651 0 |a Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.)  |0 sh 85078660  
651 0 |a Lowell (Mass.)  |x History.  |0 n 79027238  
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Stanton, Cathy.  |t Lowell experiment.  |d Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2006  |w (OCoLC)607741682 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Stanton, Cathy.  |t Lowell experiment.  |d Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2006  |w (OCoLC)607774708 
907 |a .b15377544  |b 080508  |c 200212 
913 |a - 
994 |a 92  |b SCL 
998 |a beat  |b 170818  |c m  |d a  |e -  |f eng  |g mau  |h 4 
999 f f |i a432cf78-a996-11ea-8da7-1466fadbd8b9  |s 76ab3a27-e3ba-4fbd-ac5a-4e4446ea2b9c 
852 |b Main Collection  |h HT177.L73 S83 2006  |0 d7660c74-a99c-11ea-b550-3a67fadbd8b9