American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory /

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"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...

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Autor principal: Dennis, Matthew, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Material culture.
Manners and customs.
Collective memory.
Antiquities.
Collective memory > United States.
Material culture > United States.
United States.
United States > Antiquities.
United States > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?"
  • Making the New Nation Old; Or, Founding Objects : Relics and Nationalism
  • Making the New Nation Ancient : The Incognitum, American Antiquities, and Indigenous Relics
  • Making the New Republic Venerable : Object Lessons from the Relict Colonial Past and Early National Present
  • "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" : Pioneers, Relics, and the Colonial Landscape of Westward Expansion
  • The Bloody Shirt : A Short History of a Sanguinary Object and Political Trope
  • Atrocious Relics : Trophy-Taking, Lynching, and the Objects of Terror
  • "We Will Never Forget" : The New Political Voices of Relics in Post-Holocaust America
  • 9/11 : Material Victimology
  • Future Relics.

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