Civil War monuments and the militarization of America
Thomas J. Brown
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Copyright:
- ©2019
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- Summary:
- "This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Beyond the iconoclastic Republic
- The emergence of the soldier monument
- Models of citizenship
- Models of leadership
- Visions of victory
- The Great War and Civil War memory
- Toward a new iconoclasm.
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Thomas J., 1960- , author
- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-350) and index.
Description based on print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- E641 .B885 2019eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781469653761 (electronic bk.)
1469653761 (electronic bk.)
9781469653730 [Invalid]
1469653737 [Invalid]
9781469653747 [Invalid]
1469653745 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1122809927
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC5938751 (source: MiAaPQ)
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