Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Memories of war

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

784708377

Responsibility statement

Thomas A. Chambers

Sub title

visiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic

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

Table Of 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

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