Shannon Bontrager Death at the Edges of Empire sku-792553905

In the hardcover United States History Books title Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863–1921, Shannon Bontrager examines death, burial and commemoration of American war dead. The book covers the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War and World War I.

It considers collective memory across transatlantic and transpacific networks, including collaborations between middle-class Americans and government officials and the use of war remembrance in shaping political identities and imperial ambitions. Bontrager discusses the Gettysburg Address and its call to remember the dead.

BookAuthority selected the book for its 2020 list of best new American Civil War books. SKU sku-792553905.