{"product_id":"death-at-the-edges-of-shannon-bontrager-9781496201843","title":"Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921","description":"A 2020 BookAuthority selection for best new American Civil War books \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hundreds of thousands of individuals perished in the epic conflict of the American Civil War. As battles raged and the specter of death and dying hung over the divided nation, the living worked not only to bury their dead but also to commemorate them. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address perhaps best voiced the public yearning to memorialize the war dead. His address marked the beginning of a new tradition of commemorating American soldiers and also signaled a transformation in the relationship between the government and the citizenry through an embedded promise and obligation for the living to remember the dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDeath at the Edges of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of American war dead. By focusing on the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I, Bontrager produces a history of collective memories of war expressed through American cultural traditions emerging within broader transatlantic and transpacific networks. Examining the pragmatic collaborations between middle-class Americans and government officials negotiating the contradictory terrain of empire and nation, \u003ci\u003eDeath at the Edges of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Americans imposed modern order on the inevitability of death as well as how they used the war dead to reimagine political identities and opportunities into imperial ambitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shannon Bontrager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496201841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496201843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"Shannon Bontrager","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43936366559487,"sku":"9781496201843","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ced63e15-7b21-4b00-83e8-0fb14ddddabe.jpg?v=1681425148","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-at-the-edges-of-shannon-bontrager-9781496201843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}