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LEADER: 01946cam a2200337 a 4500
001 2012013902
003 DLC
005 20130906081047.0
008 120403s2012 nyuab b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2012013902
020 $a9780801448676 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aNIC/DLC$cNIC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE181$b.C49 2012
082 00 $a355.00973$223
100 1 $aChambers, Thomas A.
245 10 $aMemories of war :$bvisiting battlegrounds and bonefields in the early American republic /$cThomas A. Chambers.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2012.
300 $axvi, 232 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAccidental tourists : the bonefields of Braddock's defeat and Ticonderoga -- Forsaken graves : the emergence of memory on the northern tour -- Retrieved relics and new monuments : Lafayette in Yorktown -- Memory without tourism : traces of the southern campaigns -- American antiquities are so rare : remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara frontier -- The value of union : antebellum commemoration and the coming of the Civil War.
520 $a"Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American republic"--Publisher's Web site.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military$y18th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military$y19th century.
650 0 $aBattlefields$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBattlefields$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aCemeteries$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aHeritage tourism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMemorialization$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aCollective memory$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.