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Commonplace witnessing : rhetorical invention, historical remembrance, and public culture /

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Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historica...

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Main Author: Vivian, Bradford (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > History and criticism.
Collective memory > United States > History.
Rhetoric.
Discours américains > Histoire et critique.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis > Histoire.
Rhétorique.
rhetoric (discipline)
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Collective memory
Memory > Social aspects
Rhetoric
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190611095
019061109X
9780190678371
0190678372