Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

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DIVStudy of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism./div

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  Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City...

  • 2007-10-11
  • 360 pages
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  • Duke University Press

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