Isbn: 9781555911621 - in the memory house (24 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Fair. Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the intensity of his language, his pace, and wit, the predisposed reader can take the leap into collective memory and even catch that damp, sweet scent of the past. A] wise and beautiful book. --The New York Times Book Review In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. Memory is a defining characteristic of New England--this great desire to mark the landscape with historical monuments, to crowd little museums full of small acts of homage, and to tell certain stories, writes Mansfield. Each essay in the book is about a moment of commemoration -- or the failure to commemorate. At such moments, our aspirations are on full view. When we seek to honor something, we are staking a claim: This is us. In history, unlike heredity, we choose our ancestors. Mansfield visited many small museums and local historical societies which he calls memory houses. He examined the changes in Town Meeting and the changes in our local landscape: the loss of the elms, and the bulldozing of an entire neighborhood, Boston's West End. He explored the histories of Franklin Pierce, Thoreau, Johnny Appleseed and Jack Kerouac. We have journeyed a long way, once ever so optimistically, and find ourselves far removed from the one-room schoolhouse and the swimming hole, from the horsecar and elm-lined Main Street, says Mansfield. We try nostalgia, elegy, jeremiad. All our efforts at the recollection, and somewhere the past itself, are in the memory house. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the intensity of his language, his pace, and wit, the predisposed reader can take the leap into collective memory and even catch that damp, sweet scent of the past. A] wise and beautiful book. --The New York Times Book Review In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. Memory is a defining characteristic of New England--this great desire to mark the landscape with historical monuments, to crowd little museums full of small acts of homage, and to tell certain stories, writes Mansfield. Each essay in the book is about a moment of commemoration -- or the failure to commemorate. At such moments, our aspirations are on full view. When we seek to honor something, we are staking a claim: This is us. In history, unlike heredity, we choose our ancestors. Mansfield visited many small museums and local historical societies which he calls memory houses. He examined the changes in Town Meeting and the changes in our local landscape: the loss of the elms, and the bulldozing of an entire neighborhood, Boston's West End. He explored the histories of Franklin Pierce, Thoreau, Johnny Appleseed and Jack Kerouac. We have journeyed a long way, once ever so optimistically, and find ourselves far removed from the one-room schoolhouse and the swimming hole, from the horsecar and elm-lined Main Street, says Mansfield. We try nostalgia, elegy, jeremiad. All our efforts at the recollection, and somewhere the past itself, are in the memory house. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.…

hardcover. Condición: Good.

Hardback. Condición: Good. Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the intensity of his language, his pace, and wit, the predisposed reader can take the leap into collective memory and even catch that damp, sweet scent of the past. A] wise and beautiful book. --The New York Times Book Review In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. Memory is a defining characteristic of New England--this great desire to mark the landscape with historical monuments, to crowd little museums full of small acts of homage, and to tell certain stories, writes Mansfield. Each essay in the book is about a moment of commemoration -- or the failure to commemorate. At such moments, our aspirations are on full view. When we seek to honor something, we are staking a claim: This is us. In history, unlike heredity, we choose our ancestors. Mansfield visited many small museums and local historical societies which he calls memory houses. He examined the changes in Town Meeting and the changes in our local landscape: the loss of the elms, and the bulldozing of an entire neighborhood, Boston's West End. He explored the histories of Franklin Pierce, Thoreau, Johnny Appleseed and Jack Kerouac. We have journeyed a long way, once ever so optimistically, and find ourselves far removed from the one-room schoolhouse and the swimming hole, from the horsecar and elm-lined Main Street, says Mansfield. We try nostalgia, elegy, jeremiad. All our efforts at the recollection, and somewhere the past itself, are in the memory house. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.…

Hardback. Condición: Fair. Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the intensity of his language, his pace, and wit, the predisposed reader can take the leap into collective memory and even catch that damp, sweet scent of the past. A] wise and beautiful book. --The New York Times Book Review In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. Memory is a defining characteristic of New England--this great desire to mark the landscape with historical monuments, to crowd little museums full of small acts of homage, and to tell certain stories, writes Mansfield. Each essay in the book is about a moment of commemoration -- or the failure to commemorate. At such moments, our aspirations are on full view. When we seek to honor something, we are staking a claim: This is us. In history, unlike heredity, we choose our ancestors. Mansfield visited many small museums and local historical societies which he calls memory houses. He examined the changes in Town Meeting and the changes in our local landscape: the loss of the elms, and the bulldozing of an entire neighborhood, Boston's West End. He explored the histories of Franklin Pierce, Thoreau, Johnny Appleseed and Jack Kerouac. We have journeyed a long way, once ever so optimistically, and find ourselves far removed from the one-room schoolhouse and the swimming hole, from the horsecar and elm-lined Main Street, says Mansfield. We try nostalgia, elegy, jeremiad. All our efforts at the recollection, and somewhere the past itself, are in the memory house. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.…

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. b-560.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Signed by author on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with VG DJ. BP/American history. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped. Spotting along page ends. Signed by author.

Condición: Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st. 12mo. 280pp. Signed by the author on the title page: INSCRIBED "To.3/95".

Condición: Near Fine/VG+. 1st. 12mo. 280pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Price-clipped DJ.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing) In a like dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Almost Like New. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.