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Reconsidering interpretation of heritage sites : America in the eighteenth century
- Title
- Reconsidering interpretation of heritage sites : America in the eighteenth century / Anne Lindsay.
- Author
- Lindsay, Anne, 1979-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 167 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This study chronicles and problematizes ten years of interpretation of a single period. It challenges public historians to alter their perception of what eighteenth-century interpretation can be. It proposes new methods of interpretation and understanding to make greater connections with the American public. It proposes a history that does not rest solely on names or dates to form meaning, but creates a sense of the effusive nature of the historical narrative for all that encounter it as its goal. However, as these changes occur, let us not lose sight of the docent from the Marblehead Historical Society, because without her diligent work and passion for American history, and that of others like her, there would be no foundation on which to build"--
- Subjects
- United States
- Historic sites > Interpretive programs
- Historic house museums > Interpretive programs
- Case studies
- History
- Historic sites > Interpretive programs > United States > Case studies
- Historic house museums > Interpretive programs > United States > Case studies
- Historiography
- United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Historiography
- 1600-1775
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Interpreting the lived experience of individuals and families in the eighteenth-century -- Eighteenth-century interpretations of environmental and global contexts at historic sites -- Breathing life into historic house museums -- Interpreting eighteenth-century streets and gardens in the urban environment -- Problematizing eighteenth-century interpretation in the homes of the founders.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10151
- ISBN
- 9781629582702
- 1629582700
- 9781629582719
- 1629582719
- 9781351332743 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781351332767 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781351332750 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780203702192 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019014624
- 40029447523
- OCLC
- 1114272549
- Author
- Lindsay, Anne, 1979- author.
- Title
- Reconsidering interpretation of heritage sites : America in the eighteenth century / Anne Lindsay.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1775
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lindsay, Anne. Reconsidering interpretation of heritage sites. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9781351332743 (DLC) 2019980830
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029447523
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10151