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Civil War monuments and the militarization of America / Thomas J. Brown.
| Author/creator | Brown, Thomas J., 1960- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] |
| Description | 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Subjects |
| Series | Civil War America |
| Contents | Beyond the iconoclastic Republic -- The emergence of the soldier monument -- Models of citizenship -- Models of leadership -- Visions of victory -- The Great War and Civil War memory -- Toward a new iconoclasm. |
| Abstract | "This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-350) and index |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019020029 |
| ISBN | 9781469653730 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469653747 (pbk : alk. paper) |