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  • Contested Places, Contested Pasts

    Sites of Memory and Commemoration in the Hungarian Landscape

    by Kenneth E. Foote, Anett Árvay ...
    Contested Places, Contested Pasts focuses on how the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War communist period, and 1956 Uprising have been memorialized and marked in the Hungarian landscape. The book explores the difficult debates surrounding the remembrance and commemoration of these events.This is the first comprehensive, book-length study of Hungary’s commemorative landscapes from the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Courthouse Square in Texas

    by Robert E. Veselka ...
    Series series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in form and layout, reflecting the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought from Europe, Mexico, and the United States. In fact, one ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Shadowed Ground

    America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy

    by Kenneth E. Foote ...
    Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997Shadowed 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 recent acts of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

    Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories

    by Derek Alderman, Ethan Bottone, A. Cheree Carlson, Carlos Flores, Marouf Hasian Jr., Carl T. Hyden, Joshua Inwood, Sean Luechtefeld, Stephanie Marek Muller, Theodore F. Sheckels, Elizabethada A. Wright, Teresa Bergman, Kenneth E. Foote, Aaron Hess, Michael P. Vicaro ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
    Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • Memorial Mania

    Public Feeling in America

    by Erika Doss ...
    In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that ... Read more

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  • Sense of History

    The Place of the Past in American Life

    by David Glassberg ...
    As Americans enter the new century, their interest in the past has never been greater. In record numbers they visit museums and historic sites, attend commemorative ceremonies and festivals, watch historically based films, and reconstruct family genealogies. The question is, Why? What are Americans looking for when they engage with the past? And how is it different from what scholars call “history ... Read more

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • Iron Curtain

    The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • A History of the American People

    by Paul Johnson ...
    "As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson's] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compelling antidote to those who regard the future with pessimism."— Henry A. KissingerPaul Johnson's prize-winning classic, A History of the American People, is an in-depth portrait of the American people ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    History & Memory

    by Jeremy Black ...
    "A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust." — Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue with generations of scholars who separate the Holocaust from Germany's military ambitions, historian Jeremy M ... Read more

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  • The Broken Heart of America

    St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    by Walter Johnson ...
    **A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis“A magisterial book… A searing history.” —Eddie S. Glaude, author of Begin Again**From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how ... Read more

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