We Are What We Remember : the American Past Through Commemoration.

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Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meriwether, Jeffrey Lee
Otros Autores: D'Amore, Laura Mattoon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
Temas:
Memorials > United States > History.
Collective memory > United States.
Memorialization > United States.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis.
Commémorations > États-Unis.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Collective memory
Memorialization
Memorials
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes cu ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (419 pages)
ISBN:9781443845854
144384585X

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