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" Monument wars : "
Kirk Savage.
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BL
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1040918
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b795288
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| Main Entry
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Savage, Kirk,1958-
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Monument wars : : Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape /\ Kirk Savage.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 390 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0520256549
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: 0520944771
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: 1282359932
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: 9780520256545
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: 9780520944770
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: 9781282359932
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- A monument to a deceased project -- Covering ground -- The mechanic monster -- Inventing public space -- The monument transformed -- The conscience of the nation -- An end to war, an end to monuments?
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The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is "a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon," according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars, Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing story-its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation. Central to this narrative is a dramatic shift from the nineteenth-century concept of a decentralized landscape, or "ground"--Heroic statues spread out in.
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Memorialization-- United States.
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Memorials-- Washington (D.C.)
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Monuments-- Washington (D.C.)
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ARCHITECTURE-- Buildings-- Public, Commercial Industrial.
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Buildings.
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Memorialization.
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Memorials.
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Monument-- Förenta staterna-- Washington, D.C.
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Monuments.
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Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
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Washington (D.C.), Buildings, structures, etc.
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Förenta staterna, Washington, D.C.
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United States.
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Washington (D.C.)
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Washington (D.C.), The Mall.
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| Dewey Classification
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725/.9409753
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F203.5.M2S38 2009eb
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