Creating Portland : history and place in northern New England / edited by Joseph A. Conforti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conforti, Joseph A.

Series:

Revisiting New England

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portland (Me.)--History.

Portland (Me.).

Portland (Me.)--Intellectual life.

Portland (Me.)--Economic conditions.

Portland (Me.)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, [2005]

Summary:

The only comprehensive study of Portland's history, culture, and people.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1584655216

OCLC:

61204282

Publisher Number:

9781584655213