Download or read book War Memorials as Political Landscape written by James M. Mayo and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-05-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Memorials as Political Landscape critiques the social meaning of war memorials and their role in political and historical landscapes. Mayo argues that war memorials not only reflect the political history of a nation, but also that these memorials are mechanisms to symbolize and justify history. He posits that the presence or absence of commemoration for America's wars is largely explained by the war's importance in establishing the nation's symbolic identity as a political state and by the number of those who died in that war.