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Memory's Nation : The Place of Plymouth Rock by John Seelye (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807824151
ISBN-13
9780807824153
eBay Product ID (ePID)
423511
Product Key Features
Book Title
Memory's Nation : the Place of Plymouth Rock
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-040784
Reviews
Seelye provides an occasion for the reader to share -- indeed, indulge -- in this type of investigation, rumination, and curiosity-sating that all scholars desire. Seelye's is a meticulous and subtly witty style. -- Journal of the Early Republic, The most powerful demonstration of the constructed character of American origins published in recent memory. -- Early American Literature, A monumental work of scholarship on the multiple meanings of a single national icon. American Historical Review, An extensive and often entertaining study of the place of Plymouth Rock in the national memory. -- Boston Globe, The most powerful demonstration of the constructed character of American origins published in recent memory.Early American Literature, Seelye's canvas is both sweeping and subtle. . . . Theoretically sophisticated and deeply researched, this splendid account is both unassuming and ambitious. It offers a gold mine of information for all students of American intellectual and social history. -- CHOICE, This rich, nuanced, and often witty book will be a delight to anyone sharing a fascination for the new history of memory, and should be essential reading for administrators and staff of historic buildings, sites, and monuments. . . . For a work such as this, context is everything, and the reader's patience will be rewarded by a deeper understanding of the ways in which public memories take shape. -- Public Historian, An extensive and often entertaining study of the place of Plymouth Rock in the national memory. Boston Globe, The most powerful demonstration of the constructed character of American origins published in recent memory. Early American Literature, [Seelye] says flatly that the Plymouth Rock legend was a myth, but charts how the myth evolved over the years -- in paintings, literature and public speeches -- and how various political and social movements (especially abolition) made use of it. The book is rich, even lavish, in its detail . . . on subjects that range from early New England patriotic iconography . . . to the rivalry between Plymouth and Provincetown over Pilgrim bragging rights, to how the Rock itself has been displayed over the centuries. -- Publishers Weekly, Memory's Nation by John Seelye is a rich and enormously detailed study of the idea of Plymouth Rock in American cultural and political life. -- AB Bookman's Weekly, Thoughtful, extremely well researched, and indeed definitive. . . . Seelye illuminates the changing nature and significance of Plymouth Rock, and in the process of so doing provides a distinctive perspective on larger trends in New England and American history. -- William and Mary Quarterly, A monumental work of scholarship on the multiple meanings of a single national icon.American Historical Review, An absorbing account of how a rock indistinguishable from numerous others along the New England shore came to embody a region's ambitions and a nation's identity. . . . A monumental work of scholarship on the multiple meanings of a single national icon. -- American Historical Review, An extensive and often entertaining study of the place of Plymouth Rock in the national memory.Boston Globe, Seelye's survey of the multiple meanings of Plymouth Rock is stippled with keen insights and wry ironies that make for fascinating reading. Equally enlightening is his account of Plymouth Rock's evolution as a shrine and tourist attraction. -- Christian Science Monitor
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
974.4/82
Table Of Content
ContentsPreface Introduction 1. A Boat, a Ship, Some People 2. The Liberty Boys Hoist One for the Forefathers 3. The Federalists Take Their Stand on the Rock 4. Webster and the Rock 5. Wherein Tears Are Struck from the Rock 6. Circumferential Matters Relating to the Rock 7. The Great Trinitarian-Unitarian-Congregational Battle over the Ownership of the Pilgrims and Their Rock 8. Concerning Certain Flaws in the Rock 9. The Rock Rolled Back 10. Tabling the Rock 11. Written on the Rock 12. Setting Free the Rock 13. Rock Ballast for the Ship of State 14. Wherein the Rock Becomes a Rolling Stone 15. Carving a Face on the Rock 16. Feminizing the Rock 17. Under the Rock—Something for Bowdoin 18. Cutting a Colossus from the Rock 19. The Rock's Red Glare 20. Brooklyn Nights—Something by Way of Lighter Fare 21. The Stern and Rock-Bound Lodge 22. Wherein the Rock Gets Reconstructed 23. The Pilgrim Fathers, Where Are They? 24. The Rock Impounded 25. The Statue and the Rock Sanct Graal:A Forwarding Address Bibliography Acknowledgments IndexIllustrations 1.The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,after Charles Lucy, ca. 1850 2. Henry Sargent,The Landing of the Fathers,ca. 1815 3. Edwin White,Signing the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower,1867 4. Charles Lucy,The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers,1853 5. Design for an American bank note, ca. 1850 6. Jenny Brownscombe,The Landing of the Pilgrims,ca. 1920 7. Advertisement travesty of Charles Lucy'sLanding,ca. 1885 8. Sam Hill, engraved invitation to a Feast of Shells, ca. 1798-1800 9. Michel Felice Corné,The Landing of the Forefathers,ca. 1798-1800 10. Corné, an alternativeLanding,ca. 1800 11. Frontispiece toThe Awful Beacon,1816 12. Certificate of membership in the Pilgrim Society, 1820 13. Peter Rothermel,The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock,1854 14. Robert Weir,The Embarkation of the Pilgrims,1843 15. Thomas Hovendon,The Last Moments of John Brown,1884 16. Engraved version of Rothermel'sLanding,1869; treasury bill inspired by Rothermel's rendition, ca. 1920 17.The Return of the Mayflower,after George Henry Boughton, ca. 1870 18. Photographic tableau featuring John Alden and Priscilla 19. Henry Bacon,The Landing of the Pilgrims,1877; sketch by William Halsall ofThe Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,1882 20. Patriotic lithograph broadside, ca. 1862 21. Engraved broadside depicting Hammatt Billings'sNational Monument to the Forefathers,ca. 1855 22. The completed Forefathers monument; close-up of the figure of Liberty 23. Augustus Saint-Gaudens,The Puritan,1885 24. Tompkins H. Matteson,Signing the Compact on Board the Mayflower,1853 25. John Quincy Adams Ward,The Pilgrim,1885 26. Edward Percy Moran, untitled sketch of the Landing, ca. 1912; lithograph by Henry A. Ogden,The Landing of the Pilgrims,1920 27. A triptych of chromos from the 1880s 28. J. Steeple Davis, lithograph portrayal of Miles Standish and his men, 1895 29. Hammatt Billings, baldachino for Plymouth Rock, designed 1855, completed 1867 30.The Pilgrim Memorial Monument,Provincetown, 1910 31. Henry Cabot Lodge with Calvin and Grace Coolidge, photographed by the Rock in 1920 32. Sketch by McKim, Mead, and White for the tercentenary canopy 33. The Landing reenacted for the cameras, August 1921 34. Coolidge standing on the Rock; schoolchildren admiring the Rock 35. The 1916 design for the temple to shelter the Rock; architect's plan for the portico and harbor 36. Frederick Burr Opper, cartoon fromPuck,ca. 1885
Synopsis
Explores the changing meanings of Plymouth Rock in American culture over two centuries. The author draws on a wealth of speeches, paintings, and popular illustrations., Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place -- the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the Mayflower . In Memory's Nation , however, John Seelye is not interested in the factual truth of the landing. He argues that what truly gives Plymouth Rock its significance is more than two centuries of oratorical, literary, and artistic celebrations of the Pilgrims' arrival. Seelye traces how different political, religious, and social groups used the image of the Rock on behalf of their own specific causes and ideologies. Drawing on a wealth of speeches, paintings, and popular illustrations, he shows how Plymouth Rock changed in meaning over the years, beginning as a symbol of freedom evoked in patriotic sermons at the start of the Revolution and eventually becoming an icon of exclusion during the 1920s. Originally published in 1998. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value., Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place--the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the Mayflower .In Memory's Nation , however, John Seelye is not interested in the factual truth of the landing. He argues that what truly gives Plymouth Rock its significance is more than two centuries of oratorical, literary, and artistic celebrations of the Pilgrims' arrival. Seelye traces how different political, religious, and social groups used the image of the Rock on behalf of their own specific causes and ideologies. Drawing on a wealth of speeches, paintings, and popular illustrations, he shows how Plymouth Rock changed in meaning over the years, beginning as a symbol of freedom evoked in patriotic sermons at the start of the Revolution and eventually becoming an icon of exclusion during the 1920s.Originally published in 1998.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
LC Classification Number
F74.P8S44 1998
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