{"product_id":"written-in-stone-9781478001720","title":"Written in Stone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTwentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate “heroes” have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In \u003ci\u003eWritten in Stone\u003c\/i\u003e Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- W. C. Johnson * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Levinson offers more questions than answers, which I find appealing. . . . It is a short and highly readable book, which also makes it ideal for classroom use. If one wanted to provoke a lively debate in class, this book would be the ideal work.\" -- Jeffrey E. Smith * Journal of American Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the 2018 Edition  xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWritten in Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Afterword  125\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  203\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408971800919,"sku":"9781478001720","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001720.jpg?v=1730504916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/written-in-stone-9781478001720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}