Death at the edges of empire : fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921 /
Shannon Bontrager.
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (302 pages).
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - 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"--
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| ISBN | 1-4962-1907-4. - 1-4962-1909-0
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