ISBN:
1496219074
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1496219090
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9781496219077
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9781496219091
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
Studies in war, society, and the military
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bontrager, Shannon Death at the edges of empire
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Collective memory
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War and society History
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War casualties Social aspects
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History
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War memorials Social aspects
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History
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Memorialization History
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Death Social aspects
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History
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HISTORY ; United States ; Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Collective memory
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Death ; Social aspects
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Memorialization
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War and society
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History
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United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America's imperial ambitions"--
Abstract:
Introduction : Lincoln's promise -- Where the grapes of wrath are stored -- The nation, a monument of empire -- Reunion : remembering domestic foreign spaces -- Retrieve the Maine! -- Memories of a foreign land -- Exiles of American cultural memory -- Cultural memory in the information age -- "That cause shall not be betrayed" -- Listening to empire : (re)playing the mystic chords of memory after the Great War -- Epilogue : reclaiming Lincoln's promise?
Note:
Extensive and substantial Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Georgia State University, 2011 titled Nationalizing the dead : the contested making of an American commemorative tradition from the Civil War to the Great War
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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