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Author Chambers, Thomas A.

Title Memories of war : visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic / Thomas A. Chambers.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Accidental tourists : the bonefields of Braddock's defeat and Ticonderoga -- Forsaken graves : the emergence of memory on the northern tour -- Retrieved relics and new monuments : Lafayette in Yorktown -- Memory without tourism : traces of the southern campaigns -- American antiquities are so rare : remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara frontier -- The value of union : antebellum commemoration and the coming of the Civil War.
Summary "Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American republic"--Publisher's Web site.
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Subject United States -- History, Military -- 18th century.
United States.
History, Military.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject United States -- History, Military -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Battlefields -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Battlefields.
History.
Battlefields -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Cemeteries -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Cemeteries.
Heritage tourism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Heritage tourism.
Memorialization -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Memorialization.
Collective memory -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Collective memory.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Other Form: Print version: Chambers, Thomas A. Memories of war. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801448676 (DLC) 2012013902 (OCoLC)784708377
ISBN 0801465672 (electronic book)
9780801465673 (electronic book)
9780801448676 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0801448670 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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