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Commemoration in America: Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gobel, David; Rossell, Daves. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AMX; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution of the city. Addressing the complex ways that monuments in the United States have been imagined, created, and perceived from the colonial period to the present, Commemoration in America is a wide-ranging volume that focuses on the role of remembrance and memorialisation in American urban life. The volume’s contributors are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines—social and urban history, urban planning, architecture, art history, preservation, and architectural history—and take a broad view of commemoration. In addition ... Read more
Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution of the city. Addressing the complex ways that monuments in the United States have been imagined, created, and perceived from the colonial period to the present, Commemoration in America is a wide-ranging volume that focuses on the role of remembrance and memorialisation in American urban life. The volume’s contributors are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines—social and urban history, urban planning, architecture, art history, preservation, and architectural history—and take a broad view of commemoration. In addition ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813933733
SKU
V9780813933733
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Ref
99-37
About
David Gobel and Daves Rossell are Professors of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.
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