Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

by Thomas J. Brown

Book Overview

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small towns across the North and South installed an astonishing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469653737
• ISBN13: 9781469653730
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"