Can I read Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America on EtoBox?

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America about?

The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery and its violent end was told in public space--specifically in the sculptural monuments that increasingly came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Here Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history arose amidst struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. As men and women North and South fought to define the war's legacy in monumental art, they reshaped the cultural landscape of American nationalism. At the same time that the Civil War challenged the nation to reexamine the meaning of freedom, Americans began to erect public monuments as never before. Savage studies this extraordinary moment in American history when a new interracial order seemed to be on the horizon, and when public sculptors tried to bring that new order into concrete form. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Savage shows how an old im

Who reads Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America?

Author

Kirk Savage

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691009476

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.79 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14