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Author:

Chambers, Thomas A.

Title:

Memories of war : visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic / Thomas A. Chambers.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xvi, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

United States--History, Military--18th century.
United States--History, Military--19th century.
Battlefields--United States--History--18th century.
Battlefields--United States--History--19th century.
Cemeteries--United States--History--19th century.
Heritage tourism--United States--History--19th century.
Memorialization--United States--History--19th century.
Collective memory--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

0801448670 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801448676 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)784708377

LCCN:

2012013902

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)