Whitney Martinko

Historic Real Estate

Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States

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Produktbeschreibung

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 make it moral.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252095
• ISBN-10: 0812252098
• Artikelnr.: 59381996

Autorenporträt

Whitney Martinko

Inhaltsangabe

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 Its Legacy
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments