Civil War monuments and the militarization of America /Thomas J. Brown.
Brown, Thomas J., 1960-
Civil War monuments and the militarization of America /Thomas J. Brown. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Civil War America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Beyond the iconoclastic Republic -- The emergence of the soldier monument -- Models of citizenship -- Models of leadership -- Visions of victory -- The Great War and Civil War memory -- Toward a new iconoclasm.
"This ... 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 ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... 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"--
9781469653761
War memorials--History.--United States
Soldiers' monuments--History.--United States
Militarization--History.--United States
Militarization--Public opinion.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
E641 / .C585 2019
Civil War monuments and the militarization of America /Thomas J. Brown. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Civil War America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Beyond the iconoclastic Republic -- The emergence of the soldier monument -- Models of citizenship -- Models of leadership -- Visions of victory -- The Great War and Civil War memory -- Toward a new iconoclasm.
"This ... 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 ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... 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"--
9781469653761
War memorials--History.--United States
Soldiers' monuments--History.--United States
Militarization--History.--United States
Militarization--Public opinion.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
E641 / .C585 2019