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Shadowed ground [electronic resource] : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy / Kenneth E. Foote.

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Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized - or not - the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Foote, Kenneth E., 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
Edition:Rev. and updated, rev. ed.
Subjects:
Historic sites > Social aspects > United States.
Violence > United States > History.
Disasters > United States > History.
United States > History, Local.
Disasters.
Historic sites > Social aspects.
Violence.
United States.
History.
Local history.
Table of 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.

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