Death at the Edges of Empire
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0184-3 (ISBN)
A 2020 BookAuthority selection for best new American Civil War books
Hundreds of thousands of individuals perished in the epic conflict of the American Civil War. As battles raged and the specter of death and dying hung over the divided nation, the living worked not only to bury their dead but also to commemorate them. President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address perhaps best voiced the public yearning to memorialize the war dead. His address marked the beginning of a new tradition of commemorating American soldiers and also signaled a transformation in the relationship between the government and the citizenry through an embedded promise and obligation for the living to remember the dead.
In Death at the Edges of Empire Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of American war dead. By focusing on the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I, Bontrager produces a history of collective memories of war expressed through American cultural traditions emerging within broader transatlantic and transpacific networks. Examining the pragmatic collaborations between middle-class Americans and government officials negotiating the contradictory terrain of empire and nation, Death at the Edges of Empire shows how Americans imposed modern order on the inevitability of death as well as how they used the war dead to reimagine political identities and opportunities into imperial ambitions.
Shannon Bontrager is an associate professor of history at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Georgia.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Lincoln's Promise
Section 1: Storage
Chapter 1: Where The Grapes of Wrath Are Stored
Chapter 2: The Nation, A Monument of Empire
Chapter 3: Reunion: Remembering Domestic Foreign Spaces
Section 2: Retrieval
Chapter 4: Retrieve the Maine!
Chapter 5: Memories of a Foreign Land
Section 3: Communication
Chapter 6: Exiles of American Cultural Memory
Chapter 7: Cultural Memory in the Information Age
Chapter 8: ""That Cause Shall Not Be Betrayed""
Chapter 9: Listening to Empire: (Re)Playing the Mystic Chords of Memory After the Great War
Epilogue: Reclaiming Lincoln's Promise?
Appendix A: List of Stops for D.H. Rhodes' Tour of the Philippines
Appendix B: List of Stops for F.S. Croggon's Tour of the Philippines
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in War, Society, and the Military |
| Zusatzinfo | 28 photographs, 2 appendixes, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-0184-1 / 1496201841 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-0184-3 / 9781496201843 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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