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Preserving Maritime America A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums
Title
Preserving Maritime America [electronic resource] : A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums / James M. Lindgren.
ISBN
1613767064
9781613767061
1625344627
9781625344625
9781625344632
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 341 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"The United States has long been dependent on the seas, but Americans know little about their maritime history. While Britain and other countries have established national museums to nurture their seagoing traditions, America has left that responsibility to private institutions. In this first-of-its-kind history, James M. Lindgren focuses on a half-dozen of these great museums, ranging from Salem's East India Marine Society, founded in 1799, to San Francisco's Maritime Museum and New York's South Street Seaport Museum, which were established in recent decades. Begun by activists with unique agendas--whether overseas empire, economic redevelopment, or cultural preservation--these museums have displayed the nation's complex interrelationship with the sea. Yet they all faced chronic shortfalls, as policymakers, corporations, and everyday citizens failed to appreciate the oceans' formative environment. Preserving Maritime America shows how these institutions shifted course to remain solvent and relevant and demonstrates how their stories tell of the nation's rise and decline as a commercial maritime power"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 Global Cultural Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2020
Series
Public history in historical perspective
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. From cabinets of curiosities to remade waterfronts
"That every mariner may possess the history of the world": a cabinet for the East India Marine Society of Salem
"From pursuit to preservation": the new Bedford Whaling Museum
"Stout hearts make a safe ship": individual and community at Mystic Seaport
"To make the American people more ship-minded": shipbuilding and sea culture at the Mariners' Museum
"A sailing ship stirs the general public like nothing else": remaking San Francisco's waterfront and identity
"The street of ships": creating South Street Seaport
Conclusion. "A loosely knit net of regional enterprises".
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