Memory Wars
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0696-1 (ISBN)
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Memory Wars explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical understandings today. Sullivan’s expedition was ordered by General George Washington at a tenuous moment of the Revolutionary War. It was a massive enterprise involving thousands of men who marched across northeastern Pennsylvania into what is now New York state, to eliminate any present or future threat from the British-allied Iroquois Confederacy. Sullivan and his men carried out a scorched-earth campaign, obliterating more than forty Iroquois villages, including homes, fields, and crops. For Indigenous residents it was a catastrophic invasion. For many others the expedition yielded untold bounty: American victory over the British along with land and fortunes beyond measure for settlers who soon moved onto the razed village sites.
The Sullivan Expedition has long been fixed on the landscape of Pennsylvania and New York by a cast of characters, including amateur historians, newly formed historical societies, and local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Asking how it is that people continue to “celebrate Sullivan” in the present day, Memory Wars underscores the symbolic value of the past as well as the dilemmas posed to contemporary Americans by the national commemorative landscape.
A. Lynn Smith is a professor of anthropology and sociology at Lafayette College. She is a coauthor of Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (Nebraska, 2016) and author of Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France.
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Terminology
Introduction: The Stories We Tell
Part I: Origins: Settler Colonial Public Memory
Pennsylvania: In the Shadow of Wyoming
1. Yankee Insurgency and the Battle of Wyoming
2. Patriotic Women Celebrate Sullivan
3. Pennsylvania’s 1929 Sullivan Series
New York: Replacement through Just Warfare
4. Ambivalent Festivities and the Newtown Centennial of 1879
5. Inventing “Sullivan-Clinton” for New York
6. Celebrating Sullivan in Indian Country
7. The 1929 “Pageant of Decision”
8. A Tale of Two States
Part 2: Reverberations: The Revolutionary Past in Contemporary America
9. Dueling Celebrations
10. Pennsylvania
11. New York
12. Changing the Narrative
Part 3: Interventions: Indigenous Histories of Settler Colonialism
13. Haudenosaunee Historical Consciousness
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.06.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 44 photographs, 4 maps, 1 table, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-0696-7 / 1496206967 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-0696-1 / 9781496206961 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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