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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E21 .P74 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 389 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 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"--
- Subjects
- Sex role
- History
- West United States
- Race relations
- National characteristics, American
- Frontier and pioneer life in art
- United States > Race relations
- Whites > Race identity > United States
- Sex role > United States > History
- Nationalism and collective memory > United States
- Women pioneers > Monuments > West (U.S.)
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780806161976
- 0806161973
- LCCN
- 2018025085
- 40029041303
- OCLC
- on1051137090
- SCSB-9355909
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library