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Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
David W. Blight
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Description for Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
Paperback. This work explores how the contested memory of the Civil War has shaped American race relations. It demonstrates several ways to probe the history of memory, to understand how and why groups of Americans have constructed versions of the past in the service of contemporary social needs. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
During the past decade and a half, scholars have increasingly addressed the relationship of history and memory. Among American historians, David W. Blight has been a pioneer in the field of memory studies, especially on the problems of slavery, race, and the Civil War. In this collection of essays, Blight examines the meanings embedded in the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, the nature of changing approaches to African American history, and the significance of race in the ways Americans, North and South, black and white, developed historical memories of the nation's most divisive event. The book as ... Read more
During the past decade and a half, scholars have increasingly addressed the relationship of history and memory. Among American historians, David W. Blight has been a pioneer in the field of memory studies, especially on the problems of slavery, race, and the Civil War. In this collection of essays, Blight examines the meanings embedded in the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, the nature of changing approaches to African American history, and the significance of race in the ways Americans, North and South, black and white, developed historical memories of the nation's most divisive event. The book as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558493612
SKU
V9781558493612
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About David W. Blight
DAVID W. BLIGHT is Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College and author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
Reviews for Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
This is a tremendous collection of essays. The author is, beyond question, the leading scholar of the collective memory of the Civil War, the leading scholar of race and collective memory, and one of the two or three leading scholars of American memory generally. - Scott A. Sandage, Carnegic Mcllon University