{"product_id":"memory-wars-9781496206961","title":"Memory Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemory Wars is an ethnographic study that explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical understandings today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beginning with the question of how settlers dealt with the knowledge that their presence on particular lands resulted from others' dispossession, Smith examines an array of diverse, often overlooked primary sources and places them into conversation with theoretical studies on memory work and historical consciousness. The result is a much-needed intervention in early American studies.\"—J. W. Parmenter, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A. Lynn Smith demonstrates the power of combining history and ethnography in the study of historical consciousness. At once a history of commemoration and an ethnography of remembrance, the book illuminates long, tangled histories of both settler and Native understandings of events at the heart of the American origin story.”—Geoffrey M. White, author of \u003ci\u003eMemorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Important and timely. \u003ci\u003eMemory Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is relevant to public historians, museum professionals, and others who study, create, and dismantle narratives consumed by the public at interpretive sites. It makes a contribution to early American history by challenging the interpretations of the Sullivan Expedition and its commemoration and the erasure of intra-settler conflicts. Finally, the research makes a significant contribution to Native American history.”—Dawn G. Marsh, author of \u003ci\u003eA Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent case study of historical memory formation that is relevant to contemporary debates over commemorations and the legacy of settler colonialism grounded in especially fascinating fieldwork. This is a very engaging read.”—Andrew Newman, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Stories We Tell\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Origins: Settler Colonial Public Memory\u003cbr\u003e             Pennsylvania: In the Shadow of Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e             1.         Yankee Insurgency and the Battle of Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e 2.         Patriotic Women Celebrate Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e             3.         Pennsylvania’s 1929 Sullivan Series\u003cbr\u003e             New York: Replacement through Just Warfare\u003cbr\u003e             4.         Ambivalent Festivities and the Newtown Centennial of 1879\u003cbr\u003e             5.         Inventing “Sullivan-Clinton” for New York\u003cbr\u003e             6.         Celebrating Sullivan in Indian Country\u003cbr\u003e 7.         The 1929 “Pageant of Decision”\u003cbr\u003e             8.         A Tale of Two States\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Reverberations: The Revolutionary Past in Contemporary America\u003cbr\u003e             9.         Dueling Celebrations\u003cbr\u003e 10.       Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e             11.       New York\u003cbr\u003e             12.       Changing the Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Interventions:  Indigenous Histories of Settler Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e 13.       Haudenosaunee Historical Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409221656919,"sku":"9781496206961","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496206961.jpg?v=1730506011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memory-wars-9781496206961","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}