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Provincetown : from Pilgrim landing to gay resort /

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"Through personal stories and historical accounts, Provincetown reveals the features that have made Land's End such a textured and colorful destination: its fame as the landfall of the Mayflower Pilgrims, charm as an eccentric artists' colony, and allure as a Dionysian playground. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krahulik, Karen Christel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2005]
Series:American history and culture (New York University Press)
Subjects:
Provincetown (Mass.) > History.
Provincetown (Mass.) > Social conditions.
Gay culture > Massachusetts > Provincetown.
Soziale Situation.
Wirtschaft.
Provincetown <Mass.>
Social conditions
Massachusetts > Provincetown.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Inventing Provincetown, 1859-1928. Colonial outpost ; "The perfect compromise" : Provincetown's Portuguese pilgrims ; "Paradise of artists"
  • Surviving Provincetown, 1929-1969. Weathering the Depression ; "Provincetown tells the Gayflower set-- Scram"
  • Gentrifying Provincetown, 1970-2000. "Sexism in paradise" ; "Gay world"
  • Cape Queer?