War memorials as political landscape : the American experience and beyond

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War memorials as political landscape : the American experience and beyond

James M. Mayo

Praeger, 1988

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Bibliography: p. [289]-296

Includes index

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War Memorials as Political Landscape critiques the social meaning of war memorials and their role in political and historical landscapes. Mayo argues that war memorials not only reflect the political history of a nation, but also that these memorials are mechanisms to symbolize and justify history. He posits that the presence or absence of commemoration for America's wars is largely explained by the war's importance in establishing the nation's symbolic identity as a political state and by the number of those who died in that war.

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War Memorials as Symbolic Messages War Memorials in the Landscape: Evocations of History Monuments to Victory as Justice Monuments to Victory as Manifest Destiny Monuments to Defeat Memories of Horror Remembrance as Political Critique

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