03089oam 22005894a 450 991082391230332120230126222843.01-4962-1909-01-4962-1907-4(CKB)4940000000159582(MiAaPQ)EBC5995426(OCoLC)1131721254(MdBmJHUP)muse74817(EXLCZ)99494000000015958220190627d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDeath at the edges of empire fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921 /Shannon Bontrager[Lincoln, Nebraska][University of Nebraska Press],[2020]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2020©[2020]1 online resource (302 pages)Studies in war, society, and the militaryExtensive 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.1-4962-0184-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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?."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"--Provided by publisher.Studies in war, society, and the military.DeathSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryMemorializationUnited StatesHistoryWar memorialsSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryWar casualtiesSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryWar and societyUnited StatesHistoryCollective memoryUnited StatesDeathSocial aspectsHistory.MemorializationHistory.War memorialsSocial aspectsHistory.War casualtiesSocial aspectsHistory.War and societyHistory.Collective memory303.6/6Bontrager Shannon1648921MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910823912303321Death at the edges of empire3997371UNINA