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Why old places matter : how historic places affect our identity and well-being
- Title
- Why old places matter : how historic places affect our identity and well-being / Thompson M. Mayes.
- Author
- Mayes, Thompson M.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
- Description
- xxvii, 139 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the reasons that old places matter to people such as the feelings of belonging, continuity, stability, identity and memory, as well as more traditional reasons such as history, national identity, and architecture.
- Series Statement
- American Association for State and Local History book series
- Uniform Title
- American Association for State and Local History book series.
- Subject
- Note
- "National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Stephanie K. Meeks -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Continuity -- Memory -- Individual Identity -- Civic, State, National, and Universal Identity -- Beauty -- History -- Architecture -- Sacred -- Creativity -- Learning -- Sustainability -- Ancestors -- Community -- Economics -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFF 18-2091
- ISBN
- 9781538117682
- 1538117681
- LCCN
- 2018949402
- OCLC
- 1050366395
- Author
- Mayes, Thompson M., author.
- Title
- Why old places matter : how historic places affect our identity and well-being / Thompson M. Mayes.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- American Association for State and Local History book seriesAmerican Association for State and Local History book series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781538117699
- Research Call Number
- JFF 18-2091