Shadowed ground : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy

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Shadowed ground : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy

Kenneth E. Foote

University of Texas Press, 2003, c1997

Rev. and updated ed

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First ed. published in 1997

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-381) and index

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Description

Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997 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 recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Table of Contents

A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs Community and Catharsis Heroic Lessons Innocent Places The Mark of Shame The Land-Shape of Memory ancl Tradition Stigmata of National Identity Invisible and Shadowed Pasts Afterword Notes Index

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