Memories of war visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic

Memories of war : visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic / Thomas A. Chambers.

Author/creator	Chambers, Thomas A.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
Description	xvi, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Battlefields--United States --History --18th century. Battlefields--United States --History --19th century. Cemeteries--United States --History --19th century. Heritage tourism--United States --History --19th century. Memorialization--United States --History --19th century. Collective memory--United States --History --19th century. United States--History, Military --18th century. United States--History, Military --19th century.

Contents	Accidental tourists : the bonefields of Braddock's defeat and Ticonderoga -- Forsaken graves : the emergence of memory on the northern tour -- Retrieved relics and new monuments : Lafayette in Yorktown -- Memory without tourism : traces of the southern campaigns -- American antiquities are so rare : remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara frontier -- The value of union : antebellum commemoration and the coming of the Civil War.
Abstract	"Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American republic"--Publisher's Web site.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012013902
ISBN	9780801448676 (cloth : alk. paper)

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