{"product_id":"memory-wars-settlers-and-natives-remember-washingtons-sullivan-expedition-of-1779-hardback-9781496206961","title":"Memory Wars; Settlers and Natives Remember Washington's Sullivan Expedition of 1779 (Hardback) 9781496206961","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMemory Wars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSettlers and Natives Remember Washington's Sullivan Expedition of 1779\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. Lynn Smith (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496206961\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e454 pages, 44 photographs, 4 maps, 1 table, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.82 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Through its use of a wide range of sources and approaches, \u003ci\u003eMemory Wars\u003c\/i\u003e provides an excellent study of how divergent and complex forces have shaped public perception, memory, and the commemoration of a major historical event.\"-Matthew C. Ward, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a 2024 \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemory Wars\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Sullivan’s expedition was ordered by General George Washington at a tenuous moment of the Revolutionary War. It was a massive enterprise involving thousands of men who marched across northeastern Pennsylvania into what is now New York state, to eliminate any present or future threat from the British-allied Iroquois Confederacy. Sullivan and his men carried out a scorched-earth campaign, obliterating more than forty Iroquois villages, including homes, fields, and crops. For Indigenous residents it was a catastrophic invasion. For many others the expedition yielded untold bounty: American victory over the British along with land and fortunes beyond measure for settlers who soon moved onto the razed village sites.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Sullivan Expedition has long been fixed on the landscape of Pennsylvania and New York by a cast of characters, including amateur historians, newly formed historical societies, and local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Asking how it is that people continue to “celebrate Sullivan” in the present day, \u003ci\u003eMemory Wars\u003c\/i\u003e underscores the symbolic value of the past as well as the dilemmas posed to contemporary Americans by the national commemorative landscape.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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’\u003cbr\u003es 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 “\u003cbr\u003eSullivan-Clinton”\u003cbr\u003e for New York\u003cbr\u003e             6.         Celebrating Sullivan in Indian Country\u003cbr\u003e 7.         The 1929 “\u003cbr\u003ePageant of Decision”\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599891132696,"sku":"9781496206961","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/memory-wars-settlers-and-natives-remember-washingtons-sullivan-expedition-of-1779-hardback-9781496206961","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}