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Sacred Ground : Americans and Their Battlefields by Edward Linenthal (1993, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

ISBN-100252061713

ISBN-139780252061714

eBay Product ID (ePID)60750

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameSacred Ground : Americans and Their Battlefields

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1993

SubjectMilitary / United States, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, United States / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTravel, History

AuthorEdward Linenthal

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight24.8 Oz

Item Length9.9 in

Item Width8.9 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN93-023925

Reviews"A blockbuster." -- Edwin C. Bearss, chief historian, National Park Service, and author of Vicksburg Campaign .

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973

SynopsisAmericans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue about the meaning of war, the importance of martial sacrifice, and the significance of preserving the nation's patriotic landscape. From the anniversary speeches at Lexington and Concord that shaped the image of the minuteman to Alamo Day speeches invoking the Texas "freedom fighters" of 1836 in support of the contras in Nicaragua; from passionate arguments over the placement of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg to confrontations between militant American Indian Movement and "Custer loyalists" during the Little Bighorn centennial in 1976; from the treatment of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to continuing attempts to maintain the purity of these places in the face of commercialization--- Sacred Ground details the ongoing struggles to define, control, and subvert patriotic faith as expressed at these ceremonial sites., Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue about the meaning of ......, Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue about the meaning of war, the importance of martial sacrifice, and the significance of preserving the nation's patriotic landscape. From the anniversary speeches at Lexington and Concord that shaped the image of the minuteman to Alamo Day speeches invoking the Texas ''freedom fighters'' of 1836 in support of the contras in Nicaragua; from passionate arguments over the placement of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg to confrontations between militant American Indian Movement and ''Custer loyalists'' during the Little Bighorn centennial in 1976; from the treatment of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to continuing attempts to maintain the purity of these places in the face of commercialization---Sacred Ground details the ongoing struggles to define, control, and subvert patriotic faith as expressed at these ceremonial sites.

LC Classification NumberE181.L636 1991