Giving preservation a history
Subtitle: histories of historic preservation in the United States
By: edited by Max Page and Randall Mason
Contributors: Page, Max; Mason, Randall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Architecture -- Conservation and restoration; Art -- Conservation and restoration; Cultural property -- Protection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Rethinking the roots of the historic preservation movement / Max Page & Randall Mason; title: The heritage crusade and its contradictions / David Lowenthal; title: On cults and cultists : German historic preservation in the twentieth century / Rudy J. Koshar; title: Roots in Boston, branches in planning and parks / Michael Holleran; title: "A spirit that fires the imagination" : historic preservation and cultural regeneration in Virginia and New England, 1850-1950 / James M. Lindgren; title: Historic preservation, public memory, and the making of modern New York City / Randall Mason; title: Marketing the past : historic preservation in Providence, Rhode Island / Briann Greenfield; title: Place over time : restoration and revivalism in Santa Fe / Chris Wilson; title: Chicago's mecca flat blues / Daniel Bluestone; title: Ancestral architecture : the early preservation movement in Charleston / Robert R. Weyeneth; title: Making history : historic preservation and civic identity in Denver / Judy Mattivi Morley; title: Conclusion : Moving forward : futures for a preservation movement / Ned Kaufman