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Americans and Their Battlefields
出版University of Illinois Press, 1991
主題History / GeneralHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
ISBN02520617139780252061714
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IPFNYaoegYwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most

famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical

preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where

different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished

national stories and to argue about the meaning of war, the importance

of martial sacrifice, and the significance of preserving the nation's

patriotic landscape.

From the anniversary speeches at Lexington and Concord that shaped the

image of the minuteman to Alamo Day speeches invoking the Texas "freedom

fighters" of 1836 in support of the contras in Nicaragua; from passionate

arguments over the placement of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg to

confrontations between militant American Indian Movement and "Custer

loyalists" during the Little Bighorn centennial in 1976; from the

treatment of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to continuing attempts

to maintain the purity of these places in the face of commercialization---Sacred

Ground details the ongoing struggles to define, control, and subvert

patriotic faith as expressed at these ceremonial sites.