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Category : Monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in West Roxbury, Mass
Author: Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
Author: Thomas J. BrownPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This sweeping new 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, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small towns across the North and South installed an astonishing range of statues, memorial halls, and other sculptural and architectural tributes to Civil War heroes, communities debated the relationship of military service to civilian life through fund-raising campaigns, artistic designs, oratory, and ceremonial practices. Brown shows that 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. Brown provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsCatalogue of Library of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Page Nicholson...
Author: John Page NicholsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Document
Author: Boston (Mass.)The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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