<<The>> property of the nation George Washington's tomb, Mount Vernon, and the memory of the first president
Dissertation, Marquette University, 2016
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Lawrence, Kansas
University Press of Kansas
2019
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Washington, George / 1732-1799 / Tomb
> Washington, George / 1732-1799 / Death and burial
> Washington, George / 1732-1799 / Influence
> Collective memory / United States / History
> Presidents / United States / Biography
> Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) / History / 19th century
> Hochschulschrift
> Washington, George
> Mount Vernon, Va.
> Grabmal
> Geschichte 1800-1899
> Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Marquette University, 2016 The body republic: Pater Patriae and the politics of disinterment -- "There's money in old George's bones" : John Augustine Washington III and the advent of historical tourism -- Cultivators of legend : enslaved storytellers at Mount Vernon -- Frontiersman, solider, and farmer : the democratic Washington in popular culture -- The civic pilgrimage : Washington's tomb and the veneration of Washington relics -- "Guardians of a national shrine" : the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the legacy of Washington -- Conclusion: Washington of the people, by the people, for the people "In the nineteenth century, George Washington became remembered as a man of the common people and the father of American democracy, despite the fact he was an aristocratic elite who believed in a strong centralized government. Following his death in 1799, the political leaders and social elites of the time competed for control of his memory and symbolic status, seeking to use Washington as a figurehead for their particular cause. But these episodes shed little light on how the greater American populace remembered him. In The Property of the Nation, Matthew Costello tells the story of Washington's tomb, the popularity of which tells us more about how ordinary Americans remembered, shared, and believed in a variety of narratives that made Washington a man of the people. The tomb served as an intersection for historical tourism, race and class relations, popular culture, and religious expression, all facets of life transformed by the growth of political democracy. These experiences illuminate how the democratic impulse transcended the present, as more Americans sought to know, touch, and even possess pieces of Washington's past"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Überarbeitete Fassung der 2016 unter dem Titel "The property of the nation : democracy and the memory of George Washington, 1799-1865" erschienenen Dissertation. Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 336 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780700628278 9780700633364 |