Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States

by Whitney Martinko

A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s

In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley to Independence Hall in Philadelphia;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252098
• ISBN13: 9780812252095
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.1"