Pioneer mother monuments : constructing cultural memory
Cynthia Culver Prescott
Bok · Engelsk · 2019 · History
| Omfang | 389 sider 16 unummererte plansjer : illustrasjoner i svart- hvitt, farger
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : monuments and public memory -- Enshrining white civilization in early pioneer monuments, 1890-1925 -- Bibles, rifles, and sunbonnets : venerating pioneer motherhood, 1925-1940 -- Modernity and pioneer memory in postwar monuments, 1940-1990 -- Mormon exceptionalism, assimilation, and Americanness, 1890-1980 -- Conservative commemoration and progressive protest in the culture wars, 1975-1995 -- Memory makes money, 1980-2005 -- Inclusivity and the limits of pioneer memory, 1990-2017 -- Conclusion : public perceptions of the American pioneer past.. - "Analyzes the ways in which public monuments to early white settlers in the western United States were erected, forgotten, and rediscovered from the late 1880s to the early 21st century in response to western race relations, shifting gender norms, and religious and regional identity"--
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| ISBN | 9780806161976
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