Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park

by Paul Marion

Book Overview

Mill Power documents the making of a national park that changed the concept of what a national historical park could be.

For a time in the 1800s, Lowell was Massachusetts's cosmopolitan, must-see second city. The city's industrial model was as high-tech then as Silicon Valley is today. It drew the attention of luminaries like Charles Dickens, Congressmen Davy Crockett and Abraham Lincoln, feminist sociologist Harriet Martineau, and abolitionist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442236280
• ISBN13: 9781442236288
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 10.0"