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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| Autore: |
Bontrager Shannon
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| Titolo: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | [Lincoln, Nebraska], : [University of Nebraska Press], , [2020] |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020 | |
| ©[2020] | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 303.6/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Death at the edges of empire |
| ISBN: | 1-4962-1909-0 |
| 1-4962-1907-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795254203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Studies in war, society, and the military.