Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America / / Kirk Savage.
The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery...
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Savage, Kirk, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America / Kirk Savage. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©1997 1 online resource (288 p.) : 67 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Exposing Slavery -- CHAPTER THREE. Imagining Emancipation -- CHAPTER FOUR. Freedom's Memorial -- CHAPTER FIVE. Slavery's Memorial -- CHAPTER SIX. Common Soldiers -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery and its violent end was told in public space--specifically in the sculptural monuments that increasingly came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Here Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history arose amidst struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. As men and women North and South fought to define the war's legacy in monumental art, they reshaped the cultural landscape of American nationalism. At the same time that the Civil War challenged the nation to reexamine the meaning of freedom, Americans began to erect public monuments as never before. Savage studies this extraordinary moment in American history when a new interracial order seemed to be on the horizon, and when public sculptors tried to bring that new order into concrete form. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Savage shows how an old image of black slavery was perpetuated while a new image of the common white soldier was launched in public space. Faced with the challenge of Reconstruction, the nation ultimately recast itself in the mold of the ordinary white man. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves, the first sustained investigation of monument building as a process of national and racial definition, probes a host of fascinating questions: How was slavery to be explained without exploding the myth of a "united" people? How did notions of heroism become racialized? And more generally, who is represented in and by monumental space? How are particular visions of history constructed by public monuments? Written in an engaging fashion, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in American culture, race relations, and public art. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) National characteristics, American History 19th century. Public sculpture, American 19th century. Slaves Emancipation United States. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400889174?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889174 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400889174.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Exposing Slavery -- CHAPTER THREE. Imagining Emancipation -- CHAPTER FOUR. Freedom's Memorial -- CHAPTER FIVE. Slavery's Memorial -- CHAPTER SIX. Common Soldiers -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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