Death at the Edges of Empire : Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921 /

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"Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic a...

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Main Author: Bontrager, Shannon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : [University of Nebraska Press], [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War and society.
Memorialization.
Death > Social aspects.
Collective memory.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Commemorations > États-Unis > Histoire.
Monuments aux morts > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Guerre > Pertes > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Guerre et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
Memoire collective > États-Unis.
Death > Social aspects > United States > History.
Memorialization > United States > History.
War memorials > Social aspects > United States > History.
War casualties > Social aspects > United States > History.
War and society > United States > History.
Collective memory > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Lincoln's promise
  • Where the grapes of wrath are stored
  • The nation, a monument of empire
  • Reunion : remembering domestic foreign spaces
  • Retrieve the Maine!
  • Memories of a foreign land
  • Exiles of American cultural memory
  • Cultural memory in the information age
  • "That cause shall not be betrayed"
  • Listening to empire : (re)playing the mystic chords of memory after the Great War
  • Epilogue : reclaiming Lincoln's promise?

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