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The Lowell Experiment - Public History in a Postindustrial City (Paperback)
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The Lowell Experiment - Public History in a Postindustrial City (Paperback)
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In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely
studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial
development. One of the first cities in the United States to
experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among
the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and
ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging
postindustrial economy. ""The Lowell Experiment"" explores how
history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how
historians have played a crucial, yet ambiguous role in that
process. The book focuses on Lowell National Historical Park, the
flagship project of Lowell's new cultural economy. When it was
created in 1978, the park broke new ground with its sweeping
reinterpretations of labor, immigrant, and women's history. It
served as a test site for the ideas of practitioners in the new
field of public history - a field that links the work of
professionally trained historians with many different kinds of
projects in the public realm. ""The Lowell Experiment"" takes an
anthropological approach to public history in Lowell, showing it as
a complex cultural performance shaped by local memory, the
imperatives of economic redevelopment, and tourist rituals - all
serving to locate the park's audiences and workers more securely
within a changing and uncertain new economy characterized by
growing inequalities and new exclusions. The paradoxical dual role
of Lowell's public historians as both interpreters of and
contributors to that new economy raises important questions about
the challenges and limitations facing academically trained scholars
in contemporary American culture. As a long-standing and well-known
example of ""culture-led redevelopment,"" Lowell offers an
outstanding site for exploring questions of concern to those in the
fields of public and urban history, urban planning, and tourism
studies.
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