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Death at the edges of empire : fallen soldiers, cultural memory, and the making of an American nation, 1863-1921 / Shannon Bontrager

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Bontrager, Shannon
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Lincoln : [University of Nebraska Press], [2020]
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Contents
Introduction : Lincoln's promise -- Where the grapes of wrath are stored -- The nation, a monument of empire -- Reunion : remembering domestic foreign spaces -- Retrieve the Maine! -- Memories of a foreign land -- Exiles of American cultural memory -- Cultural memory in the information age -- "That cause shall not be betrayed" -- Listening to empire : (re)playing the mystic chords of memory after the Great War -- Epilogue : reclaiming Lincoln's promise?
Summary
"Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America's imperial ambitions"--
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9781496219077 (electronic book)
1496219074 (electronic book)
9781496219091 (electronic book)
1496219090 (electronic book)
9781496201843
1496201841
9781496219084 (mobi)
Note
Extensive and substantial Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Georgia State University, 2011 titled Nationalizing the dead : the contested making of an American commemorative tradition from the Civil War to the Great War.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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