Memories of War
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3266-9 (ISBN)
Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places.
In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America’s rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they desired experiences that evoked strong emotions and leant meaning to the bleached bones and decaying fortifications of a past age. Chambers traces this impulse through efforts to commemorate Braddock’s Field and Ticonderoga, the cultivated landscapes masking the violent past of the Hudson River valley, the overgrown ramparts of Southern war sites, and the scenic vistas at War of 1812 battlefields along the Niagara River. Describing a progression from neglect to the Romantic embrace of the landscape and then to ritualized remembrance, Chambers brings his narrative up to the beginning of the Civil War, during and after which the memorialization of such sites became routine, assuming significant political and cultural power in the American imagination.
Thomas A. Chambers is Professor of History at Niagara University. He is the author of Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth Century Mineral Springs.
Preface
Introduction. Yorktown's Centennial: The Changing Nature of Battlefield Tourism and Commemoration
Chapter 1. Accidental Tourists: The Bonefields of Braddock’s Defeat and Ticonderoga
Chapter 2. Forsaken Graves: The Emergence of Memory on the Northern Tour
Chapter 3. Retrieved Relics and New Monuments: Lafayette in Yorktown
Chapter 4. Memory without Tourism: Traces of the Southern Campaigns
Chapter 5. American Antiquities Are So Rare: Remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier
Chapter 6. The Value of Union: Antebellum Commemoration and the Coming of the Civil War
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5017-3266-8 / 1501732668 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-3266-9 / 9781501732669 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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