{"product_id":"remembering-world-war-i-in-america-paperback-softback-9781496234674","title":"Remembering World War I in America (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496234674","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRemembering World War I in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKimberly J. Lamay Licursi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496234674\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 1 photograph, 3 illustrations, 4 tables, 2 appendixes, index\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 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\"By helping us to better understand today the historical obscurity of World War I in America, Lamay Licursi seeks to erase a past of erasure-to replace forgetting with remembering.\"-Trevor Dodman, \u003ci\u003eFirst World War Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRemembering World War I in America\u003c\/i\u003e furnishes some sound explanations for why America's second experience with total war-the Civil War being the first-one which saw the nation making an indispensable contribution to victory and emerging as a global power, found so little purchase in the imagination of its citizens.”-Robert Teigrob, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Lamay Licursi’s useful work should be consulted by military, political, and social historians interested in America’s participation in World War I and the interwar years.”-Jeffery S. Underwood, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This well-researched study gives weight to historians' common contention that Americans \"simply wanted to forget the war.\"\"-B. T. Browne, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi's \u003ci\u003eRemembering World War I in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on memory of the Great War.\"-Mark Folse, H-War\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"An interesting and thoughtful look at how national memory is constructed.\"-A. A. Nofi, \u003ci\u003eStrategy Page\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The author has done an impressive amount of research in compiling this study, and all those readers interested in how Americans once remembered the Great War will find much to enjoy in its pages.\"-Roger D. Cunningham, \u003ci\u003eJournal of America’s Military Past\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRemembering World War I in America\u003c\/i\u003e is most impressive in Licursi's extensive archival research on state histories and her investigations into the factual data of publishing figures.\"-David Rennie, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Kimberly Lamay Licursi explores with nuance and detail the American cultural memory of the Great War before 1941. Using understudied sources, such as pulp fiction and abandoned state history projects, she deftly shows how the act of ‘forgetting’ the war was based on remembering it in divergent ways. Fascinating and timely reading.”-Stephen R. Ortiz, professor of history at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of \u003ci\u003eVeterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Bonus March and GI Bill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I am impressed by the thoroughness with which Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi has combed through archival records related to state-level remembrance projects. And I admire (and regard as a model) the way she grounds her assertions about cultural influence in quantifiable specifics-in inventories of library holdings, recommendations in library journals, and the like.”-Steven K. Trout, professor of English at the University of South Alabama and author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941\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\"\u003ePoised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans think of the Great War simply as a precursor to World War II. Americans, including veterans, hastened to put experiences and memories of the war years behind them, reflecting a general apathy about the war that had developed during the 1920s and 1930s and never abated. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRemembering World War I in America\u003c\/i\u003e Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi explores the American public’s collective memory and common perception of World War I by analyzing the extent to which it was expressed through the production of cultural artifacts related to the war. Through the analysis of four vectors of memory-war histories, memoirs, fiction, and film-Lamay Licursi shows that no consistent image or message about the war ever arose that resonated with a significant segment of the American population. Not many war histories materialized, war memoirs did not capture the public’s attention, and war novels and films presented a fictional war that either bore little resemblance to the doughboys’ experience or offered discordant views about what the war meant. In the end Americans emerged from the interwar years with limited pockets of public memory about the war that never found compromise in a dominant myth. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction    \u003cbr\u003e 1. State War Histories: An Atom of Interest in an Ocean of Apathy    \u003cbr\u003e 2. War Memoirs: They Pour from Presses Daily    \u003cbr\u003e 3. War Stories: Fiction Cannot Ignore the Greatest Adventure in a Man’\u003cbr\u003es Life    \u003cbr\u003e 4. War Films: Shootin’\u003cbr\u003e and Kissin’\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Selected Bibliography of World War I Personal Narratives    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: Selected Bibliography of World War I Novels    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/div\u003e\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":52600260034840,"sku":"9781496234674","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/remembering-world-war-i-in-america-paperback-softback-9781496234674","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}