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Pioneer mother monuments : constructing cultural memory
- Title
- Pioneer mother monuments : constructing cultural memory / Cynthia Culver Prescott.
- Author
- Prescott, Cynthia Culver, 1975-
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 389 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Analyzes the ways in which public monuments to early white settlers in the western United States were erected, forgotten, and rediscovered from the late 1880s to the early 21st century in response to western race relations, shifting gender norms, and religious and regional identity"--
- Subject
- Women pioneers > Monuments > West (U.S.)
- Frontier and pioneer life in art
- Nationalism and collective memory > United States
- National characteristics, American
- Sex role > United States > History
- White people > Race identity > United States
- Nationalism and collective memory
- Race relations
- Sex role
- Whites > Race identity
- United States > Race relations
- United States
- United States, West
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : monuments and public memory -- Enshrining white civilization in early pioneer monuments, 1890-1925 -- Bibles, rifles, and sunbonnets : venerating pioneer motherhood, 1925-1940 -- Modernity and pioneer memory in postwar monuments, 1940-1990 -- Mormon exceptionalism, assimilation, and Americanness, 1890-1980 -- Conservative commemoration and progressive protest in the culture wars, 1975-1995 -- Memory makes money, 1980-2005 -- Inclusivity and the limits of pioneer memory, 1990-2017 -- Conclusion : public perceptions of the American pioneer past.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6701
- ISBN
- 9780806161976
- 0806161973
- LCCN
- 2018025085
- 40029041303
- OCLC
- 1051137090
- Author
- Prescott, Cynthia Culver, 1975- author.
- Title
- Pioneer mother monuments : constructing cultural memory / Cynthia Culver Prescott.
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029041303
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6701