Civil War monuments and the militarization of America /Thomas J. Brown.

By:

Brown, Thomas J, 1960- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469653761

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E641 .C585 2019

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E641 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1122809927

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"--

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