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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
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
[Lincoln, Nebraska] [University of Nebraska Press], [2020]
Related Series:
Studies in war, society, and the military
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Summary:
"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]
Table of Contents:
  • 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?.
Author/Creator:
Bontrager, Shannon , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Death at the edges of empire: fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921 [by Bontrager, S.]
Related Series:
Studies in war, society, and the military
Subjects:
Collective memory — United States
War and society — United States — History
War casualties — Social aspects — United States — History
War memorials — Social aspects — United States — History
Memorialization — United States — History
Death — Social aspects — United States — History
General Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
HM1027.U6 B65 2020eb
ISBNs:
9781496219077 (electronic bk.)
1496219074 (electronic bk.)
9781496201843 [Invalid]
1496201841 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1131721254
Other Control Numbers:
EBC5995426 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301014235