Shadowed ground : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy / Kenneth E. Foote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foote, Kenneth E., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic sites--Social aspects--United States.

Historic sites.

Violence--United States--History.

Violence.

Disasters--United States--History.

Disasters.

United States--History, Local.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and updated, rev. ed.

Other Title:

America's landscapes of violence and tragedy

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized - or not - the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1 A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy

Chapter 2 The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs

Chapter 3 Community and Catharsis

Chapter 4 Heroic Lessons

Chapter 5 Innocent Places

Chapter 6 The Mark of Shame

Chapter 7 The Land-Shape of Memory and Tradition

Chapter 8 Stigmata of National Identity

Chapter 9 Invisible and Shadowed Pasts

Afterword Recent Traumas, Changing Memories, Continuing Tensions

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-381) and index.

ISBN:

9780292799103

0292799101

OCLC:

607891720

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33640 hdl