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CONFORTI, JOSEPH A. (EDITOR). Creating Portland: History And Place In Northern New England.
University of New Hampshire Press: 2007. 158465449X / 9781584654490 Reprint Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
The only comprehensive study of Portland's history, culture, and people. Portland, the largest city in Maine, has recently become one of the most popular destinations in the United States. Named one of New England's most livable cities, Portland has grown over the past quarter century into a major regional center and international tourist mecca. From the colonial period, Portland has been defined by its diverse array of peoples. Native American inhabitants possessed a strong sense of place rooted in spiritual beliefs, environmental practices, and tribal lore. Puritans, Quakers, and Baptists brought religious diversity to Colonial Falmouth (one of several early names for Portland). By the late eighteenth century, free blacks formed an important community. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Irish, Italian, Greek, and Jewish immigrants made their way to Portland. Today, more recent immigrants include individuals from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, Portland has a thriving gay community. Geography, history, and public policy all shaped modern Portland. The core of the city is on a peninsula with a protected harbor on Casco Bay. Across time, Portland residents have exploited geography to develop a natural resource economy. Portland has been a fur trading post, a fishing center, a lumbering and shipbuilding community, a commercial entrepot, and a tourist destination. Portland's proximity to the sea has been the overriding factor in its development, and is a central theme of the historical essays in this volume. A model of contemporary place studies, Creating Portland brings together essays by fourteen scholars on the history, geography, arts, literature, and built environment of Portland over the course of three centuries. Illuminating Portland within the larger context of New England regionalism, and unified by a focus on Portland as a living, changing urban center, Creating Portland is an invaluable guide to the city and a resource for scholars, students, residents, and tourists. The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Acknowledgments, Introduction: Placing Portland - Joseph A. Conforti, Formerly Machegonne, Dartmouth, York, Stogummor, Casco, and Falmouth: Portland as a Contested Frontier in the Seventeenth Century - Emerson W. Baker, Thriving and Elegant Town: Eighteenth-Century Portland as Commercial Center - Charles P. M. Outwin, Falmouth, the American Revolution, and the Price of Moderation - James S. Leamon, Longfellow's Portland - Charles Calhoun, Comunidad Escondida: Latin American Influences in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Portland - David Carey Jr., Picturing Place: Portland and the Visual Arts - Donna M. Cassidy ¥ Writing Portland: Literature and the Production of Place - Kent C. Ryden, Working Portland: Women, Class, and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century - Eileen Eagan, "What They Lack in Numbers": Locating Black Portland, 1870-1930 - Maureen Elgersman Lee, Creating and Preserving Portland's Urban Landscape, 1885-1925 - Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., From Declining Seaport to Liberty City: Portland During Depression and War - Joel W. Eastman ¥ Creating a "Gay Mecca": Lesbians and Gay Men in Late-Twentieth-Century Portland - Howard M. Solomon, Epilogue: Maine, New England, and American City - Joseph A. Conforti, Contributors. Index. Awarded a Certificate of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History 2006. Joseph Conforti served for ten years as the director of the graduate program in American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of five books on New England, most recently Imagining New England: Exploration of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (2001). "Creating Portland is a benchmark publication, of a kind that many of us in the field, as well as general readers, have been craving for decades... this saga is packed with fresh information and ideas, and is a joy to read." ÑPortland Press Herald
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CONFORTI, JOSEPH A. (EDITOR). Creating Portland: History And Place In Northern New England.
University of New Hampshire Press: 2007. s Softcover. Brand new book.
The only comprehensive study of Portland's history, culture, and people. Portland, the largest city in Maine, has recently become one of the most popular destinations in the United States. Named one of New England's most livable cities, Portland has grown over the past quarter century into a major regional center and international tourist mecca. From the colonial period, Portland has been defined by its diverse array of peoples. Native American inhabitants possessed a strong sense of place rooted in spiritual beliefs, environmental practices, and tribal lore. Puritans, Quakers, and Baptists brought religious diversity to Colonial Falmouth (one of several early names for Portland). By the late eighteenth century, free blacks formed an important community. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Irish, Italian, Greek, and Jewish immigrants made their way to Portland. Today, more recent immigrants include individuals from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, Portland has a thriving gay community. Geography, history, and public policy all shaped modern Portland. The core of the city is on a peninsula with a protected harbor on Casco Bay. Across time, Portland residents have exploited geography to develop a natural resource economy. Portland has been a fur trading post, a fishing center, a lumbering and shipbuilding community, a commercial entrepot, and a tourist destination. Portland's proximity to the sea has been the overriding factor in its development, and is a central theme of the historical essays in this volume. A model of contemporary place studies, Creating Portland brings together essays by fourteen scholars on the history, geography, arts, literature, and built environment of Portland over the course of three centuries. Illuminating Portland within the larger context of New England regionalism, and unified by a focus on Portland as a living, changing urban center, Creating Portland is an invaluable guide to the city and a resource for scholars, students, residents, and tourists. The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Acknowledgments, Introduction: Placing Portland - Joseph A. Conforti, Formerly Machegonne, Dartmouth, York, Stogummor, Casco, and Falmouth: Portland as a Contested Frontier in the Seventeenth Century - Emerson W. Baker, Thriving and Elegant Town: Eighteenth-Century Portland as Commercial Center - Charles P. M. Outwin, Falmouth, the American Revolution, and the Price of Moderation - James S. Leamon, Longfellow's Portland - Charles Calhoun, Comunidad Escondida: Latin American Influences in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Portland - David Carey Jr., Picturing Place: Portland and the Visual Arts - Donna M. Cassidy ¥ Writing Portland: Literature and the Production of Place - Kent C. Ryden, Working Portland: Women, Class, and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century - Eileen Eagan, "What They Lack in Numbers": Locating Black Portland, 1870-1930 - Maureen Elgersman Lee, Creating and Preserving Portland's Urban Landscape, 1885-1925 - Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., From Declining Seaport to Liberty City: Portland During Depression and War - Joel W. Eastman ¥ Creating a "Gay Mecca": Lesbians and Gay Men in Late-Twentieth-Century Portland - Howard M. Solomon, Epilogue: Maine, New England, and American City - Joseph A. Conforti, Contributors. Index. Awarded a Certificate of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History 2006. Joseph Conforti served for ten years as the director of the graduate program in American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of five books on New England, most recently Imagining New England: Exploration of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (2001). "Creating Portland is a benchmark publication, of a kind that many of us in the field, as well as general readers, have been craving for decades... this saga is packed with fresh information and ideas, and is a joy to read." ÑPortland Press Herald
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