Jean M. O'Brien

Just a really solid work with a strong but still interesting and super useful framework; the citation you'll see of this really speaks to how useful it is. It's deeply thorough, and might strike some folks as repetitive, but I think O'Brien really just does an amazing job of showing how deeply pervasive these practices are, and really challenge the reader to consider how these practices might be used in their own local histories. Strongly recommend for everyone but especially people who live/have lived in the area currently known as New England, as a way to reconsider the spaces they occupy.… (mehr)