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

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	United States -- History, Military -- 18th century.
	United States -- History, Military -- 19th century.
	Battlefields -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Battlefields -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Cemeteries -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Heritage tourism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Memorialization -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Collective memory -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Battlefields -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	HISTORY -- Military -- United States.
	HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
	Battlefields. (OCoLC)fst00828910
	Cemeteries. (OCoLC)fst00850521
	Collective memory. (OCoLC)fst01739814
	Heritage tourism. (OCoLC)fst00955465
	Memorialization. (OCoLC)fst01200580
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
	Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
Other Form:	Print version: Chambers, Thomas A. Memories of war. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801448676 (DLC) 2012013902 (OCoLC)784708377
ISBN	0801465672 (electronic bk.)
	9780801465673 (electronic bk.)

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