Commemorating Abraham Lincoln the transnational way Lincoln monuments in Great Britain / Liv Birte Buchmann (edition).

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Acknowledgments -- Content -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Memory Actors: The Men Behind the Monuments -- 2.1 From a Burying Place to a Lincoln Monument: Dedicating a Monument to Scottish-American Civil War Veterans in Edinburgh -- 2.2 One Occasion, Two Statues: Lincoln's Long Way to London and Manchester -- 3 Iconography and Space: Three Different Lincolns Creating Transnational Spaces in Britain -- 3.1 George Edwin Bissell's "Emancipation Group" in Edinburgh -- 3.2 George Grey Barnard's "Lincoln" in Manchester

3.3 Augustus Saint-Gaudens's "Abraham Lincoln: The Man" in London, England -- 3.4 Three Lincolns Creating Three Different Transnational Spaces -- 4 Staging Lincoln Memory? The Public Unveiling Ceremonies as Forums for Transnational Discourses of Collective Memory and Identity -- 4.1 Staging Lincoln as a Symbol for a Transnational Collective Identity in Edinburgh -- 4.2 Staging the "Anti-Lincoln": The Unveiling Ceremony in Manchester's Platt Fields Park -- 4.3 Staging Lincoln Memory in London: A Transnational Symbol of Comfort and Hope

4.4 Lincoln Monuments in Britain -- Transnational Sites of Memory -- 5 Conclusion -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Backcover

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