Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction: Whose wars are on view? -- America's wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Museums, memorials, and novels as sites of war knowledge -- The Smithsonian curates America's wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq at a memorial, cemetery and a traveling tribute to veterans -- Bodies of war curate the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Remembering, forgetting, curating, and re-curating war |
Summary |
We have long saved--and curated--objects from wars to commemorate the war experience. These objects appear at national museums and memorials and in war novels and memoirs. Through them we institutionalize narratives and memories of national identity, power and purpose. This book asks whose vantage points on the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq are available, and where, for public consumption; it also considers whose war experiences are not represented, are minimized, or ignored in ways that advantage contemporary militarism. In looking at how professional curators, ordinary civilian curator |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from HTML homepage (Oxford, viewed November 10, 2020) |
Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Social aspects -- United States
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Social aspects -- United States
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Curatorship -- United States
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Military museums -- United States
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War memorials -- United States
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Collective memory -- United States
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Memory -- Social aspects -- United States
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War -- Historiography
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War and society -- United States
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War in literature.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Collective memory.
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Curatorship.
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Memory -- Social aspects.
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Military museums.
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Social aspects.
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War and society.
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War in literature.
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War memorials.
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Iraq.
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United States.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780190840587 |
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0190840587 |
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9780190840563 |
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0190840560 |
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