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Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, American Nation
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education, High School
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Subject
- Death & Dying, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Military / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Social History
- ISBN
- 9781496201843
- EAN
- 9781496201843
- Publication Name
- Death at the Edges of Empire : Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Series
- Studies in War, Society, and the Military Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496201841
ISBN-13
9781496201843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038399020
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Death at the Edges of Empire : Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Death & Dying, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Military / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Social History
Series
Studies in War, Society, and the Military Ser.
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2019-015608
Lc Classification Number
Hm1027.U6b65 2020
Reviews
"Shannon Bontrager has written an intricate, impressive book about mourning, memory, and national identity. Some facets of his story are familiar, but he extends the sweep of his analysis in fresh and provocative directions, enlarging it, as the title suggests, to the edges of the American empire."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Civil War Book Review, "Shannon Bontrager's Death on the Edges of Empire joins a list of other seminal works on war and memory such as Kristin Hass's Carried to the Wall . He shows the importance of culture on shaping American narratives regarding war. It is a very important addition to the literature. Highly recommended!"--Kyle Longley, author of Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam, "This innovative work--part intellectual history and part memory study--reveals the shifting cultural landscape of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century America and the crucial of role of military cemeteries within this national, transatlantic, and transpacific narrative."--Tracy L. Barnett, North Carolina Historical Review, " Death at the Edges of Empire is an insightful new addition into the historiography on how Americans construct cultural memories from their military dead and how these memories are susceptible to change."--Tristan Krause, H-War, "Original, thoughtful, and wide-ranging. Readers interested in the connections among military sacrifice, memory, and national identity will come away with many insights."--Andre M. Fleche, Journal of Southern History, "Shannon Bontrager's Death at the Edges of Empire is an important addition to the scholarship of cultural memory. By limiting the scope to the period between the Civil War and the end of World War I, he allows us to trace the evolution of remembrance across four very different conflicts during a period that transformed America as a nation. Given the depth and complexity of the topics discussed, this book would work well in a graduate-level seminar on American history, especially one concerned with cultural memory."--Robert T. Jones, Cercles, "Though a work of history, Death at the Edges of Empire ultimately raises questions about the present: Are we too divided to do war memorials anymore? And if so, are honest forms of commemoration even possible?"--Randall Fuller, Wall Street Journal, "Bontrager's wide sweep means that scholars with different specialties will find this book valuable."--Vicki Daniel, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, " Death at the Edges of Empire provides an essential new perspective on the intersection of military memory, the bodies of the war dead, race, and empire. It pushes historians to consider how the war dead have been used to expand American empire while reinforcing the limitations of who could be included in the American project. As the United States confronts the legacy of military commemoration in new ways, this book provides scholars with novel analyses that will strengthen their understandings of the field."--Allison S. Finkelstein, Journal of the Civil War Era, "This is would be an excellent book for a graduate level seminar in American historical geography or American cultural memory. . . . Geographers who study cultural memory will be especially interested in the skillful analysis of how memory moves and takes shape across places at different scales to justify the American imperial project."--Jordan P. Brasher, Journal of Historical Geography, "Dense and absorbing. I'm particularly impressed by Bontrager's deft rhetorical analysis of various speeches--many of them by presidents--delivered at remembrance functions between 1863 and 1921. . . . This is an effective way of tracking the ideological twists and turns in American war commemoration. In addition, the author knows how to tell a story. Some of my favorite sections of this book are simply compelling narratives."--Steven Trout, professor of English at the University of South Alabama, "Shannon Bontrager's Death at the Edges of Empire joins a list of other seminal works on war and memory, such as Kristin Hass's Carried to the Wall . He shows the importance of culture on shaping American narratives regarding war. It is a very important addition to the literature. Highly recommended!"--Kyle Longley, author of Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam
Table of Content
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Lincoln's Promise Part 1. Storage 1. Where the Grapes of Wrath Are Stored 2. The Nation, a Monument of Empire 3. Remembering Domestic Foreign Spaces Part 2. Retrieval 4. Retrieve the Maine! 5. Memories of a Foreign Land Part 3. Communication 6. Exiles of American Cultural Memory 7. Cultural Memory in the Information Age 8. That Cause Shall Not Be Betrayed 9. Listening to Empire Epilogue: Reclaiming Lincoln's Promise? Appendix A: Stops in D. H. Rhodes's Tour of the Philippines Appendix B: Stops in F. S. Croggon's Tour of the Philippines Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
303.6/6
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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