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Author Foote, Kenneth E., 1955-

Title Shadowed ground : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy / Kenneth E. Foote.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E159 .F68 2003    Available  ---
Edition Rev. and updated, rev. ed.
Description 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-381) and index.
Contents 1. A landscape of violence and tragedy -- 2. The veneration of heroes and martyrs -- 3. Community and catharsis -- 4. Heroic lessons -- 5. Innocent places -- 6. The mark of shame -- 7. The land-shape of memory and tradition -- 8. Stigmata of national identity -- 9. Invisible and shadowed pasts -- Afterword : Recent traumas, changing memories, continuing tensions.
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject Historic sites -- Social aspects -- United States.
Historic sites -- Social aspects.
United States.
Historic sites.
Violence -- United States -- History.
Violence.
History.
Disasters -- United States -- History.
Disasters.
United States -- History, Local.
Local history.
Other Form: Online version: Foote, Kenneth E., 1955- Shadowed ground. Rev. and updated, rev. ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003 (OCoLC)606930595
Online version: Foote, Kenneth E., 1955- Shadowed ground. Rev. and updated, rev. ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003 (OCoLC)607891720
ISBN 0292705255 paperback alkaline paper
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