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9780292705258

Shadowed Ground

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  • ISBN13:

    9780292705258

  • ISBN10:

    0292705255

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-04-01
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

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Summary

Shadowed 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 violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Author Biography

Kenneth E. Foote is Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directs the Center for Geographic Education.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1(35)
A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy
Chapter 2 36(44)
The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs
Chapter 3 80(31)
Community and Catharsis
Chapter 4 111(34)
Heroic Lessons
Chapter 5 145(29)
Innocent Places
Chapter 6 174(40)
The Mark of Shame
Chapter 7 214(51)
The Land-Shape of Memory and Tradition
Chapter 8 265(28)
Stigmata of National Identity
Chapter 9 293(44)
Invisible and Shadowed Pasts
Afterword 337(22)
Recent Traumas, Changing Memories, Continuing Tensions
Notes 359(24)
Index 383

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