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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
Shannon Bontrager is a professor of history at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Georgia.
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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.
