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National trauma and collective memory : major events in the American century / Arthur G. Neal.
LIBRA E741 .N43 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neal, Arthur G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Social aspects.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Case studies.
- United States--Social conditions--1945---Case studies.
- Crises--United States--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.
- Crises.
- Psychological aspects.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Memory.
- National characteristics, American.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- National trauma & collective memory
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1998]
- Summary:
- Chronicles the major traumas of the 20th century in America -- the Depression, Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Vietnam, Watergate, Three Mile Island, the Challenger explosion -- how we responded to them as a nation, and what our responses mean.
- Contents:
- Collective sadness, fear, and anger
- Society as moral community
- The Great Depression
- The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
- The communist menace
- The Cuban missile crisis
- The assassination of President Kennedy
- The Vietnam war
- The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Watergate affair
- Technological accidents : the Challenger explosion, travel accidents, Three Mile Island, calamities to come
- Collective memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765602865
- 0765602873
- OCLC:
- 38014715
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