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The same ax, twice : restoration and renewal in a throwaway age
- Title
- The same ax, twice : restoration and renewal in a throwaway age / Howard Mansfield.
- Author
- Mansfield, Howard.
- Publication
- Hanover : University Press of New England, [2000]
- ©2000
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | E159 .M37 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Mansfield tracks our need to reconnect with place and memory. He offers journalistic descriptions of some of the people who are realizing their own visions of the restorative impulse." "The act of restoration, Mansfield concludes, whether it's rebuilding antique engines or reviving the village model of community organization, must contain an element of renewal. Rejecting the sentimentality of nostalgia and the superficiality of commercial appropriation, Mansfield argues for an understanding of restoration that is concerned as much with the future as it is with the past, that preserves and communicates a spirit as well as a form."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-288).
- Contents
- Preface: The Fires of 1899 -- The Same Ax, Twice -- Unearthing the Mammoth -- Building the Elephant -- The Belated Tourist -- The Birds Keep Their Secrets -- Flow -- A Moment's Bright Flash -- Old Home Day, Every Day -- The Lost Language of Villages -- Solace on the Block -- Repose -- Buzzland; or, A Prop's Short Memoir -- Tomorrow's Another Working Day -- Freegrace Farm: My Prayer Sincere -- Mending -- An Arkload of Noahs -- Some Concluding Restoration Principles, Pleas, and Prayers.
- ISBN
- 1584650281
- 9781584650287
- LCCN
- 99056170
- OCLC
- ocm42810744
- 42810744
- SCSB-1132979
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library