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Memorials matter : emotion, environment, and public memory at American historical sites / Jennifer K. Ladino.

Fine Arts Library F590.7 . L33 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ladino, Jennifer K., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Historic sites--Social aspects--West (U.S.).
Historic sites.
Memorials--Social aspects--West (U.S.).
Memorials.
Monuments--Social aspects--West (U.S.).
Monuments.
Collective memory--Social aspects--West (U.S.).
Collective memory.
Historic sites--Social aspects.
Memorials--Social aspects.
Social aspects.
West United States.
Physical Description:
xxii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
Summary:
"Memorials Matter investigates how sites of memory in the American West influence emotions about historical conflict and national identity. The book compares seven diverse National Park Service sites to show how the natural landscapes and built structures combine with written texts at each site to generate emotion in individual tourists and shape our collective memory of traumatic events"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction : feeling like a mountain : scale, patriotism, and affective agency at Mount Rushmore National Memorial
"Fears made manifest" : desert creatures and border anxiety at Coronado National Memorial
Placing historical trauma : guilt, regret, and compassion at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Performing patriotism : reenactment, historicity and thing-power at Golden Spike National Historic Site
Remembering war in paradise : grief, aloha, and techno-patriotism at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Mountains, monuments, and other matter : reckoning with racism and simulating shame at Manzanar National Historic Site
"We have died. Remember us" : fear, wonder, and overlooking the buffalo soldiers at Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Postscript : going rogue with the alt-NPS : managing love and hate for an alternative anthropocene.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Ladino, Jennifer K., author. Memorials matter
ISBN:
9781943859962
1943859965
9781943859979
1943859973
OCLC:
1050140180

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