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Civil War monuments and the militarization of America /

This assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic and continued to influence...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Thomas J., 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Monuments.
War memorials > United States > History.
Soldiers' monuments > United States > History.
Militarization > United States > History.
Militarization > United States > Public opinion.
Political culture > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond the iconoclastic Republic
  • The emergence of the soldier monument
  • Models of citizenship
  • Models of leadership
  • Visions of victory
  • The Great War and Civil War memory
  • Toward a new iconoclasm.