Thomas A. Chambers Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic 9781501732669

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Автор: Thomas A. Chambers
Название: Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic
ISBN: 9781501732669
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Военная история

ISBN-10: 1501732668
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 252
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 15.12.2018
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 halftones, black and white
Размер: 235 x 155 x 16
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas, HISTORY / Military / United States,HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Подзаголовок: Visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early american republic
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places.

In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America’s rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they desired experiences that evoked strong emotions and leant meaning to the bleached bones and decaying fortifications of a past age. Chambers traces this impulse through efforts to commemorate Braddock’s Field and Ticonderoga, the cultivated landscapes masking the violent past of the Hudson River valley, the overgrown ramparts of Southern war sites, and the scenic vistas at War of 1812 battlefields along the Niagara River. Describing a progression from neglect to the Romantic embrace of the landscape and then to ritualized remembrance, Chambers brings his narrative up to the beginning of the Civil War, during and after which the memorialization of such sites became routine, assuming significant political and cultural power in the American imagination.

Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic, Thomas A. Chambers