Shannon Bontrager

Death at the Edges of Empire

Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921

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Produktbeschreibung

Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I, exploring the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America’s imperial ambitions.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781496229045
• ISBN-10: 1496229045
• Artikelnr.: 61381481

Autorenporträt

Shannon Bontrager is an associate professor of history at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Georgia.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lincoln’s Promise
Part 1. Storage
1. Where the Grapes of Wrath Are Stored
2. The Nation, a Monument of Empire
3. Remembering Domestic Foreign Spaces
Part 2. Retrieval
4. Retrieve the Maine!
5. Memories of a Foreign Land
Part 3. Communication
6. Exiles of American Cultural Memory
7. Cultural Memory in the Information Age
8. That Cause Shall Not Be Betrayed
9. Listening to Empire
Epilogue: Reclaiming Lincoln’s Promise?
Appendix A: Stops in D. H. Rhodes’s Tour of the Philippines
Appendix B: Stops in F. S. Croggon’s Tour of the Philippines
Notes
Bibliography
Index