The Continuing Revolution
Author | : Robert Weible |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Weible |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cathy Stanton |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781558495470 |
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 1978, the park broke new ground with its sweeping reinterpretations of labor, immigrant, and women's history. It served as a test site for the ideas of practitioners in the new field of public history--a field that links the work of professionally trained historians with many different kinds of projects in the public realm. The Lowell Experiment takes an anthropological approach to public history in Lowell, showing it as a complex cultural performance shaped by local memory, the imperatives of economic redevelopment, and tourist rituals--all serving to locate the park's audiences and workers more securely within a changing and uncertain new economy characterized by growing inequalities and new exclusions. The paradoxical dual role of Lowell's public historians as both interpreters of and contributors to that new economy raises important questions about the challenges and limitations facing academically trained scholars in contemporary American culture. As a long-standing and well-known example of culture-led re-development, Lowell offers an outstanding site for exploring questions of concern to those in the fields of public and urban history, urban planning, and tourism studies.
Author | : Thomas Dublin |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780912627465 |
Tells the story of America's first large-scale planned industrial community, Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations include paintings, maps, drawings, and black and white and color photographs.
Author | : Lowell Historic Canal District Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Thomas Dublin |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780231041676 |
Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.
Author | : George Frederick Kenngott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Lowell (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Carolyn Beaudry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Cotton manufacture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Carolyn Beaudry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : Nina Sankovitch |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466878118 |
The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of this fascinating and powerful dynasty in The Lowells of Massachusetts. Though not without scoundrels and certainly no strangers to controversy , the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America’s history: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who arrived in America in the seventeenth to plant the roots of the family tree; Reverend John Lowell, the preacher; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, manufacturer and, some say, founder of the Industrial Revolution in the US; James Russell Lowell, American Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard’s longest-serving and most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the twentieth century poet who lived openly in a Boston Marriage with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell. The Lowells realized the promise of America as the land of opportunity by uniting Puritan values of hard work, community service, and individual responsibility with a deep-seated optimism that became a well-known family trait. Long before the Kennedys put their stamp on Massachusetts, the Lowells claimed the bedrock.
Author | : Richard P. Howe Jr. |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146710048X |
When Nathan Appleton and his colleagues built their first textile mill on the banks of the Merrimack River in 1822, they were pursuing the vision of their departed mentor, Francis Cabot Lowell. The complex system of machinery, labor, management, and capital that resulted made the city that they named Lowell the centerpiece of America's Industrial Revolution. Changes in technology and commerce made the golden age of Lowell's mills short lived. Despite the success of businesses such as the patent medicine company of James C. Ayer, jobs remained scarce for decades. Hard times created strong leaders--people like Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, who sponsored the G.I. Bill, and writer Jack Kerouac, who added a new voice to the country's literary mix. More recently, Paul Tsongas inspired a new generation to transform Lowell into one of the most exciting mid-sized cities in post-industrial America and a world model of urban revitalization. Legendary Locals of Lowell tells the city's story through pictures of its people.