Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums Volume 17

by Andrea Terry

House museums act as both sources and suppliers of history. Functioning first as private residences, they are then preserved as commemorative monuments and become living history museums offering theme-based tours led by period-costumed interpreters so that visitors might experience "what it felt like to live back then." In Family Ties, Andrea Terry considers the appeal and relevance of domesticated representations of Victorian material culture in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773545611
• ISBN13: 9780773545618
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.3"