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Memorials matter : emotion, environment, and public memory at American historical sites / Jennifer K. Ladino.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses) 2019
- Reno, Nevada ; 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-943859-98-1
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