Creating Portland
Subtitle: history and place in northern New England
By: edited by Joseph A. Conforti.
Contributors: Conforti, Joseph A.
Series: Revisiting New England
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781584655213
Subjects: Portland (Me.) -- History.; Portland (Me.) -- Intellectual life.; Portland (Me.) -- Economic conditions.; Portland (Me.) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : placing Portland / Joseph A. Conforti; title: Formerly Machegonne, Dartmouth, York, Stogummor, Casco, and Falmouth / Emerson W. Baker; title: Thriving and elegant town : eighteenth-century Portland as commercial center / Charles P. M. Outwin; title: Falmouth, the American Revolution, and the price of moderation / James S. Leamon; title: Longfellow's Portland / Charles Calhoun; title: Comunidad escondida : Latin American influences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portland / David Carey Jr; title: Picturing place : Portland and the visual arts / Donna M. Cassidy; title: Writing Portland : literature and the production of place / Kent C. Ryden; title: Working Portland : women, class, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century / Eileen Eagan; title: "What they lack in numbers" : locating Black Portland, 1870/1930 / Maureen Elgersman Lee; title: Creating and preserving Portland's urban landscape, 1885/1925 / Earle G. Shettleworth Jr; title: From declining seaport to liberty city : Portland during depression and war /Joel W. Eastman; title: Creating a "gay mecca" : lesbians and gay men in late-twentieth-century Portland / Howard M. Solomon; title: Epilogue : Maine, New England, and American city / Joseph A. Conforti.