Lowell Experiment Public History in a Postindustrial City

Name: Lowell Experiment Public History in a Postindustrial City
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ISBN: 9781558495470

ISBN-10: 1558495479

ISBN-13: 9781558495470

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cathy Stanton

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 8/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Cathy Stanton is an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University and Vermont College of Union Institute & University.