Shadowed Ground : : America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy / / Kenneth E. Foote.

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 rec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:Revised Edition
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1 A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy
  • Chapter 2 The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs
  • Chapter 3 Community and Catharsis
  • Chapter 4 Heroic Lessons
  • Chapter 5 Innocent Places
  • Chapter 6 The Mark of Shame
  • Chapter 7 The Land-Shape of Memory and Tradition
  • Chapter 8 Stigmata of National Identity
  • Chapter 9 Invisible and Shadowed Pasts
  • Afterword Recent Traumas, Changing Memories, Continuing Tensions
  • Notes
  • Index