ISBN
978-1-4696-5373-0
Publication Date
December 2019
Price
$29.95
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Abstract
“The Civil War monuments installed by communities across the North and South from the 1860s into the 1930s” (1), Thomas J. Brown argues in his fascinating new book, served as “exemplars of a robust, disciplined citizenry” (2). They symbolized the “soldier’s replacement of the farmer as the paradigmatic American citizen,” “created a social metaphor conducive to Gilded Age reinforcement of class and racial hierarchy” (6), and thereby “transformed the civil landscape and the place of the military in national life “(1)...
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.22.2.06
Recommended Citation
Foster, Gaines M.
(2020)
"Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 22
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Iss.
2
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.22.2.06
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol22/iss2/6
