Author: Ansel Judd NorthrupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
'Sconset Cottage Life
Author: Ansel Judd NorthrupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Sconset Cottage Life
Author: Ansel Judd NorthrupPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337512125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
'Sconset Cottage Life
Author: Ansel Judd NorthrupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Rendered Obsolete
Author: Jamie L. JonesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469674831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
Hamilton Literary Magazine
Author: Journal of Education
Author: A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Inventing New England
Author: Dona BrownPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1560987995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.
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