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Autore |
Bontrager Shannon |
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Death at the edges of empire : fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921 / / Shannon Bontrager |
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[Lincoln, Nebraska], : [University of Nebraska Press], , [2020] |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020 |
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©[2020] |
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ISBN |
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1-4962-1909-0 |
1-4962-1907-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in war, society, and the military |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Extensive and substantial revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Georgia State University, 2011 titled Nationalizing the dead : the contested making of an American commemorative tradition from the Civil War to the Great War. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 and transpacific contexts of America's imperial |
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