Civil War monuments and the militarization of America / Thomas J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Thomas J., 1960- author.

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Militarization.

Public opinion.

History.

Soldiers' monuments.

War memorials.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments.

United States.

Monuments.

War memorials--United States--History.

Soldiers' monuments--United States--History.

Militarization--United States--History.

Militarization--United States--Public opinion.

Political culture--United States--History.

Political culture.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

366 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Beyond the iconoclastic Republic

The emergence of the soldier monument

Models of citizenship

Models of leadership

Visions of victory

The Great War and Civil War memory

Toward a new iconoclasm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469653730

1469653737

9781469653747

1469653745

OCLC:

1096240183