Pioneer mother monuments constructing cultural memory

Introduction : monuments and public memory -- Enshrining white civilization in early pioneer monuments, 1890-1925 -- Bibles, rifles, and sunbonnets : venerating pioneer motherhood, 1925-1940 -- Modernity and pioneer memory in postwar monuments, 1940-1990 -- Mormon exceptionalism, assimilation, and A...

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1. Verfasser: Prescott, Cynthia Culver (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : monuments and public memory -- Enshrining white civilization in early pioneer monuments, 1890-1925 -- Bibles, rifles, and sunbonnets : venerating pioneer motherhood, 1925-1940 -- Modernity and pioneer memory in postwar monuments, 1940-1990 -- Mormon exceptionalism, assimilation, and Americanness, 1890-1980 -- Conservative commemoration and progressive protest in the culture wars, 1975-1995 -- Memory makes money, 1980-2005 -- Inclusivity and the limits of pioneer memory, 1990-2017 -- Conclusion : public perceptions of the American pioneer past.
"Analyzes the ways in which public monuments to early white settlers in the western United States were erected, forgotten, and rediscovered from the late 1880s to the early 21st century in response to western race relations, shifting gender norms, and religious and regional identity"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 349-372
Beschreibung:xvi, 389 Seiten
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ISBN:9780806161976
978-0-8061-6197-6