Publication

2019 - University of North Carolina Press

Language

English

Word Count

94,000 words, Guess

Page Count

376 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781469653730
  • ISBN-101469653737
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019020029
  • OCLC Control Number1096240183
  • Better World Books9781469653730
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCE641 .B885 2019

Description

"This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"--

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Other Editions

  • Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of AmericaUniversity of North Carolina Press2019-01-01

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