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Taking possession : the politics of memory in a St. Louis town house
- Title
- Taking possession : the politics of memory in a St. Louis town house / Heidi Aronson Kolk.
- Author
- Kolk, Heidi Aronson
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 244 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years. In Taking Possession, Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory. Crafting narratives about the past that comforted business elites and white middle-class patrons, museum promoters assuaged concerns about the city's most pressing problems, including racial and economic inequality, segregation and privatization, and the legacies of violence for which St. Louis has been known since Ferguson. Kolk's case study illuminates the processes by which civic pride and cultural solidarity have been manufactured in a fragmented and turbulent city, showing how closely linked acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame are"--
- Series Statement
- Public history in historical perspective
- Uniform Title
- Public history in historical perspective.
- Subjects
- Collective memory
- Historic buildings
- Museums and community
- Campbell House Museum (Saint Louis, Mo.)
- Campbell family
- Collective memory > Missouri > Saint Louis
- Saint Louis (Mo.) > Social life and customs > History
- History
- Historic buildings > Missouri > Saint Louis
- Missouri > Saint Louis
- Campbell House Museum (Saint Louis, Mo.) History
- Saint Louis (Mo.) > History
- Museums and community > Missouri > Saint Louis
- Manners and customs
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the burglary -- The neighborhood -- Caretaking -- The auction -- The opening -- The receipt book -- The dinner party -- Two buckskin suits -- Restoration -- Conclusion : no place like home.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10574
- ISBN
- 9781625344144
- 1625344147
- 9781625344151
- 1625344155
- 9781613766620 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018053114
- 40029041389
- OCLC
- 1066195588
- Author
- Kolk, Heidi Aronson, author.
- Title
- Taking possession : the politics of memory in a St. Louis town house / Heidi Aronson Kolk.
- Publisher
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Public history in historical perspectivePublic history in historical perspective.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029041389
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10574