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Sacred relics : pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America

Title
Sacred relics : pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America / Teresa Barnett.
Author
Barnett, Teresa.
Publication
  • Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
  • ©2013

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Description
xii, 250 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Collectors and collecting > United States > History > 19th century
  • Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > United States > History > 19th century
  • Andenken
  • Sachkultur
  • Musealisierung
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-244) and index.
Contents
Origins and meanings -- Beginnings -- History's remains -- The sentimental relic -- The Civil War -- The battlefield's remains -- "In memory of our beloved Confederacy": pathetic relics of the lost cause -- From relic to souvenir: buffs' collecting of the war -- Conclusion -- The waning of the relic.
ISBN
  • 9780226059600 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 022605960X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 022605974X (e-book)
  • 9780226059747 (e-book)
  • 9780226059747 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013005613
  • 99956690398
OCLC
  • ocn828682581
  • 828682581
  • SCSB-9624688
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries