{"product_id":"independence-hall-in-american-memory-9780812222821","title":"Independence Hall in American Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book I have long awaited, one that tells the life of a single building so as to illuminate American history from almost every angle-cultural, social, and political.-Mary Ryan, author of Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mires cuts a broad swath through the centuries. We see the forces of preservation and politics converge and collide, countered by the environmental dynamic of a changing urban neighborhood. We also observe how African Americans, always a vital presence in Philadelphia, took liberty's message to heart. . . . Mires's plea for understanding the public memory that historic structures shape should inspire others to follow her lead.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating portrait that illuminates the connection between collective memory and history, investigates how traditions and heritage emerge and change, and examines how a heterogeneous society constructs and preserves its history. The book reveals Independence Hall, the most revered symbol of the American republic, as a place of contradiction, where the nation's ideals have been both defined and contested, expanded and limited.\" * \u003ci\u003ePennsylvania Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Charlene Mires liberates a great American shrine from the bounds of Georgian brick. An archaeologist of memory, she sifts the rich layers of meaning and remembrance embedded in a single building. In Mires's hands, preserving and interpreting Independence Hall becomes as dynamic a story as the nation-buiding that occurred within its walls.\" * Tony Horwitz, author of \u003ci\u003eConfederates in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mires's book frees us from any one-dimensional view of the past, and of ourselves, by showing that Independence Hall, like America, always has been and must be a work in progress.\" * \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An outstanding contribution to the study of memory places in the U.S.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book I have long awaited, one that tells the life of a single building so as to illuminate American history from almost every angle-cultural, social, and political.\" * Mary Ryan, author of \u003ci\u003eCivic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Landmark: A British Home for the American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 2. Workshop: Building a Nation\u003cbr\u003e 3. Relic: Survival in the City\u003cbr\u003e 4. Shrine: Slavery, Nativism, and the Forgotten History of the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e 5. Legacy: Staking Claims to the Past Through Preservation\u003cbr\u003e 6. Place and Symbol: The Liberty Bell Ascendant\u003cbr\u003e 7. Treasure: Eighteenth-Century Building, Twentieth Century City\u003cbr\u003e 8. Anchor: A Secure Past for Cold War America\u003cbr\u003e 9. Prism: Redefining Independence for a Third Century\u003cbr\u003e 10. Memory: The Truths We Hold To Be Self-Evident\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405701652823,"sku":"9780812222821","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222821.jpg?v=1730493329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/independence-hall-in-american-memory-9780812222821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}