Memories of War : Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic /

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Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the...

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Autor principal: Chambers, Thomas A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Battlefields > History > 18th century > United States.
Battlefields > History > 19th century > United States.
Battlefields > United States > History > 18th century.
Battlefields > United States > History > 19th century.
Cemeteries > History > 19th century > United States.
Cemeteries > United States > History > 19th century.
Collective memory > History > 19th century > United States.
Collective memory > United States > History > 19th century.
Heritage tourism > History > 19th century > United States.
Heritage tourism > United States > History > 19th century.
Memorialization > History > 19th century > United States.
Memorialization > United States > History > 19th century.
Military History.
Travel Guides & Travel Writing.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Changing Nature of Battlefield Tourism and Commemoration
  • 1. Accidental Tourists: The Bonefields of Braddock's Defeat and Ticonderoga
  • 2. Forsaken Graves: The Emergence of Memory on the Northern Tour
  • 3. Retrieved Relics and New Monuments: Lafayette in Yorktown
  • 4. Memory without Tourism: Traces of the Southern Campaigns
  • 5. American Antiquities Are So Rare: Remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier
  • 6. The Value of Union: Antebellum Commemoration and the Coming of the Civil War
  • Notes
  • Index

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