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Commemoration in America : Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory / edited by David Gobel and Daves Rossell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monuments--United States.
- Monuments.
- Memorialization--United States.
- Memorialization.
- Nationalism and collective memory--United States.
- Nationalism and collective memory.
- Art and society--United States.
- Art and society.
- Physical Description:
- 346 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Peterson, University of California, Berkeley * Richard M. Sommer, University of Toronto * Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Contents:
- Discovering the monumental theme. Why do contemporary monuments talk so much? / Dell Upton
- Memorial observances / Catherine W. Bishir
- Stone witnesses, dumb pictures, and voices from the grave: objects, images, and collective memory in early Boston / Mark A. Peterson
- The triumphal marker. Staging a triumph, raising a temple: Philadelphia's "Welcoming parade" for Lafayette, 1824 / Jhennifer A. Amundson
- "Liberty regulated by law": civic instruction on the George Washington inaugural centennial in Chicago / Ellen M. Litwicki
- The democratic monument: the reframing of history as heritage / Richard M. Sommer and Glenn Forley
- "As a witness upon the field of history": the American elm as commemorative vessel in nineteenth-century New England / Thomas J. Campanella
- The weight of history. Unresolved: the Italian Hall memorial in Calumet, Michigan / Alison K. Hoagland
- Judge Thomas Ruffin and the shadows of Southern history / Sally Greene
- Commemorating the civil rights movement with monuments in the urban South / GlennT. Eskew
- Inventing homelands in Japanese American concentration camps / Lynne Horiuchi
- Forgoing memory. Adorning damnable cities: pro urbis amore and damnatio memoriae / David Lowenthal.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813934334
- 0813934338
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