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Memories of war : visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic / Thomas A. Chambers.
LIBRA E181 .C49 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chambers, Thomas A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory.
- History.
- Memorialization.
- Heritage tourism.
- Cemeteries.
- Battlefields.
- History, Military.
- United States--History, Military--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--History, Military--19th century.
- Battlefields--United States--History--18th century.
- Battlefields--United States--History--19th century.
- Cemeteries--United States--History--19th century.
- Heritage tourism--United States--History--19th century.
- Memorialization--United States--History--19th century.
- Collective memory--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American republic"--Publisher's Web site.
- Contents:
- Accidental tourists : the bonefields of Braddock's defeat and Ticonderoga
- Forsaken graves : the emergence of memory on the northern tour
- Retrieved relics and new monuments : Lafayette in Yorktown
- Memory without tourism : traces of the southern campaigns
- American antiquities are so rare : remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara frontier
- The value of union : antebellum commemoration and the coming of the Civil War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801448676
- 0801448670
- OCLC:
- 784708377
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