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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795254203321

Autore

Bontrager Shannon

Titolo

Death at the edges of empire : fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921 / / Shannon Bontrager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Lincoln, Nebraska], : [University of Nebraska Press], , [2020]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©[2020]

ISBN

1-4962-1909-0

1-4962-1907-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Collana

Studies in war, society, and the military

Disciplina

303.6/6

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

"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



ambitions"--