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We are what we remember : the American past through commemoration / edited by Jeffrey Lee Meriwether and Laura Mattoon D'Amore.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memorials--United States--History.
- Memorials.
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Memorialization--United States.
- Memorialization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes cu...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART TWO; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART THREE; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART FOUR; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; PART FIVE; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-4585-X
- OCLC:
- 827209469
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