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American relics and the politics of public memory
"The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Public history in historical perspective.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?"
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology
- Part I: Foundations
- Chapter 1: Making the New Nation Old
- or, Founding Objects: Relics and Nationalism
- Chapter 2: Making the New Nation Ancient: The Incognitum, American Antiquities, and Indigenous Relics
- Chapter 3: Making the New Republic Venerable: Object Lessons from the Relict Colonial Past and Early National Present
- Part II: Supremacy
- Chapter 4: "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" Pioneers, Relics, and the Colonial Landscape of the Dead in Westward Expansion
- Chapter 5: The Bloody Shirt: A Short History of a Sanguinary Object and Political Trope
- Chapter 6: Atrocious Relics: Trophy-Taking, Lynching, and the Objects of Terror
- Part III: Heroes and Victims
- Chapter 7: "We Will Never Forget": The New Political Voices of Relics in Post- Holocaust America
- Chapter 8: 9/11: Material Victimology
- Epilogue: Future Relics
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover