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Shadowed Ground: Americas Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
by Kenneth E. Foote
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of Texas Press (1997-05)
ISBN: 0292724993
EAN: 9780292724990
Dewey Decimal #: 973
Hardcover: 371 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 2AB1-093-7-1107
Condition: G No DJ
Comments: EX-LIBRARY with typical stickers and markings; No Dust Jacket; Clean body of text; Boards somewhat soiled, slightly rubbed; Corners and ends of spine lightly bumped; Pages bright and tight. *International Buyers Welcome!* (except for prohibitively heavy items, as noted) - Satisfied customers in over 40 countries! We ship quickly and guarantee satisfaction. Your purchase helps support a U. Chicago student
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
From the battlefield at Gettysburg to the Oklahoma City block where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood, sites of violence and tragedy have left indelible marks on the American landscape. Some have become places of pilgrimage, where visitors mourn losses, learn lessons from the tragedy, and experience renewal. Others became empty places where nothing remains to commemorate or even to mark the occurrence. In this pioneering book, Kenneth E. Foote explores how and why Americans have memorialized--or not--the sites of tragic and violent events. Drawing on years of travel and reflection, he traces the history of sites spanning three centuries and every region of the United States. Foote deduces that Americans usually react to the scenes of tragedy in one of four ways. Many places undergo public sanctification, such as Memphis' Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Some are simply designated with a marker, while others are rectified and returned to normal use. Those that produce shame and revulsion are often obliterated and left empty. These differing reactions to sites of violence offer an important new perspective to the debate over violence in American society.
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Customer Reviews
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An Incredible Book!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-06-17
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read this book a couple of years and found it amazing!
It's heartbreaking, bloodchilling, and inspiring, all in one
book. These are stories that often remain untold and hidden in our culture, yet they are a distinct and vital part of
our national experience. I read the first edition, by the way,
and I now plan to buy the second, updated edition, which I
anticipate will deal with the World Trade Center attacks, the
Pentagon attack, and the Shencksville, PA, air crash. If you
buy one book this year, buy this one!
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An Astonishing Book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-06-06
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an astonishing book, one that defies easy categorization or even any categorization at all. It is by turns
thought-provoking, horrifying, and inspiring, and the buyer will never regret the money spent on it. This book will stay with the reader for a long time to come.
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Phenomenal look at marking pain
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-05-22
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Excellent overview of why we choose to designate tragic events in some cases, and hush-up others shamefully. Poignant, original...no other book so comprehensively covers the geography of painful memorials. An interesting sequel could be written regarding domestic terrorism, not just in America, but regarding other countries' place-memorials of such events.
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I haven't read the book yet, but the cover image is amazing!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-04-29
0 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
I haven't read the book yet, but the cover image is amazing!
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Shadowed Ground : America's Places of Tragedy and Violence
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-07-30
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you arrange your library by category you may have trouble with this book. History? True Crime? Cultural Geography? Anthropology? Sociology? American Studies? The book covers the sites of disaster, assassination, murder and accident all across America, including nearly every site and shrine in Texas. We review it not just for it's interesting content, but its coverage of a most unusual type of geography. It's a thought-provoking book at how, why and in what manner we deal with the sites of violence (and tragedy). The individual stories of the incidents are told completely, but without distracting from the book's theme. It's a unique book and should remain so for some time. Foote's thoroughness guarantees that.
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