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Gettysburg : memory, market, and an American shrine / Jim Weeks.
LIBRA E475.56 .W44 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weeks, Jim, 1950-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Monuments.
- Historic sites--Economic aspects.
- Historic sites.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Heritage tourism.
- Tourism--Social aspects.
- Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.).
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
- Tourism--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
- Tourism.
- Heritage tourism--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
- Memory--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
- Historic sites--Economic aspects--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
- Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments.
- Pennsylvania.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- "Looking at succeeding generations of tourists and pilgrims to the site--the genteel, the veterans, the masses, and finally the reenactors--Weeks gives us a lively, engaging, argumentative, and very well-written analysis of the commercial uses made of Gettysburg since before the bones were buried until the present day."--Michael Fellman, author of "The Making of Robert E. Lee and "Citizen Sherman
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691102716
- OCLC:
- 50079931
- Online:
- Publisher description
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