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Written in stone : public monuments in changing societies /
Is it 'Stalinist' for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | Twentieth anniversary edition with new preface and afterword. |
| Colección: | Public planet books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Is it 'Stalinist' for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal, multicultural society memorialize anyone at all, or is it committed to a strict neutrality about the quality of the lives led by its citizens? The author considers the tangled responses of ever-changing societies to the monuments and commemorations created by past regimes or outmoded cultural and political systems. Drawing on examples from Albania to Zimbabwe, from Moscow to Managua, and paying particular attention to examples throughout the American South, this book looks at social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments. The author asks what kinds of claims the past has on the present, particularly if the present is defined in dramatic opposition to its past values. In addition, this book addresses the possibilities for responding to the use and abuse of public spaces and explores how a culture might memorialize its historical figures and events in ways that are beneficial to all its members. The book is a meditation on how national cultures have been or may yet be defined through the deployment of public monuments. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 206 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781478004349 1478004347 |