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Memories of war : visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic
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Memories of war : visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic / Thomas A. Chambers.
ISBN
9780801448676 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801448670 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xvi, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American republic"--Publisher's Web site.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 26, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Accidental tourists : the bonefields of Braddock's defeat and Ticonderoga
Forsaken graves : the emergence of memory on the northern tour
Retrieved relics and new monuments : Lafayette in Yorktown
Memory without tourism : traces of the southern campaigns
American antiquities are so rare : remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara frontier
The value of union : antebellum commemoration and the coming of the Civil War.
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