Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves (eBook)

Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition

Kirk Savage (Autor)

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2018 | 2. Auflage
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18452-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacyThe United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces-specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "e;united"e; people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.

Autor

Kirk Savage is the William S. Dietrich II Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (Princeton) and the editor of The Civil War in Art and Memory.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • African Americans • Allegory • americans • Anecdote • Apollo Belvedere • Archer Alexander • army base names • Arthur Ashe • Augustus Saint-Gaudens • black body • black people • Black school • Booker T. Washington • Caricature • Cemetery • Charleston Church shooting • Charlottesville • Citizenship • Civilization • Collective memory • Common • Confederate • confederate flag • confederate generals • Confederate memorials • confederate states of America • Criticism • Debasement • Destruction • Dylann Roof • Emancipation • Emancipation Memorial • Emancipation Proclamation • Emblem • equestrian • Equestrian Statue • Exclusion • Expatriate • Flag • freedman • Freedman’s Memorial • Generals • George Washington Williams • Grand Army of the Republic • Harper's Weekly • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Harriet Hosmer • Henry Highland Garnet • Hiram Powers • Iconography • Ideology • Illustration • Institution • Jefferson Davis • Jim Crow • John Calhoun statue • John C. Calhoun • John Mercer Langston • John Quincy Adams Ward • laborer • Liminality • Lincoln Memorial • Lincoln Monument (Dixon, Illinois) • Lorado Taft • Lost Cause • Lydia Maria Child • Make it Right • manumission • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Masculinity • Memorials • Militarism • Military Service • militia • Monumental Sculpture • Monument Avenue • narrative • Nathan Bedford Forrest • Nationality • neo Confederate • newspaper • Noel Ignatiev • nudity • Old South • Oppression • Orlando Patterson • Patriarchy • Pediment • Physiognomy • Politician • Politics • Protests • Public Space • Race (human categorization) • racial hierarchy • Racism • racist art • Radical Republican • Randolph Rogers • Relief • Removals • removed • removing • rhetoric • Richmond • Robert E. Lee monument • Robert Gould Shaw • Saint Gaudens • sculpture • Segregation • Shaw • Slavery • social death • Sojourner Truth • soldier • Sons of Confederate Veterans • Statue • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Systemic Racism • The Greek Slave • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Various • Thomas Wentworth Higginson • torn down • union army • United Daughters of Confederacy • Vinnie Ream • warfare • war memorial • white people • white southerners • white supremacy • William Dean Howells • William Greenleaf Eliot • William Wetmore Story • Winthrop Jordan • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18452-6 / 0691184526
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18452-4 / 9780691184524