| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) |
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text file |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary |
In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region's vanishing tob |
| Contents |
Preface; 1. The Bounds of History; 2. How the Past Became a Place; 3. The Transient Nature of All Things Sublunary; 4. Collecting Utopia; 5. The Past Is a Rural Landscape; 6. Commemorative Hauntings; 7. Beyond Storytelling; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Archaeology. |
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Archaeology -- Maryland.
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Maryland. |
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Historic sites -- Psychological aspects.
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Historic sites -- Psychological aspects. |
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Historic sites. |
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration. |
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Maryland.
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Collective memory.
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Collective memory. |
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Antiquities in popular culture -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Antiquities in popular culture. |
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Antiquities in popular culture -- Maryland.
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Saint Marys City (Md.) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781572338517 |
| ISBN |
9781572338883 |
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1572338881 |
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9781572338517 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1572338512 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9786613809551 |
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