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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792207503321

Autore

Swigger Jessie

Titolo

"History is bunk" : assembling the past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village / / Jessie Swigger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61376-302-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Public History in Historical Perspective

Disciplina

338.76292092

Soggetti

Americana - Private collections - Michigan - Dearborn

Inventions - Private collections - Michigan - Dearborn

Technology - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Goodbye textbooks, hello America": the Ford years -- The Fording of American history -- A permanent pageant of America -- The public's village -- Dearborn, not Detroit: Greenfield Village after Henry Ford -- Searching for an identity -- Visitors respond -- The new history at an old village -- From history museum to history attraction.