Historic real estate : market morality and the politics of preservation in the early United States /
In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how early Americans debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. She argues that early advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to mak...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Architecture, Society, and Economy in the Early United States
- I. CORPORATE PROPERTIES
- Chapter 1. Capital Plans: Ancient Monuments in Public Squares
- Chapter 2. Sacred Forms: Public Buildings and Urban Improvements
- II. COMMERCIAL SITES
- Chapter 3. The Business of Preservation: Antiquarian Views and Commercial Enterprise
- Chapter 4. Moral Real Estate: Sacred Historic Space and the Politics of Speculation
- III. DOMESTIC SPACES
- Chapter 5. Civic Housekeeping: Voluntary Associations and Domestic Economy
- Chapter 6. Ancestral Estates: Patrimonial Property and Rural Improvement
- Epilogue. Rethinking Mount Vernon and Legacies of Preservation
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
