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

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781496219084
ISBN: 1496201841
ISBN: 9781496201843
ISBN: 1496219090
ISBN: 9781496219091
ISBN: 1496219074
ISBN: 9781496219077
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Lincoln : [University of Nebraska Press], [2020]

Content descriptions

General 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, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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?
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020).