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Includes a new chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11

Table of Contents

• A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy
• The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs
• Community and Catharsis
• Heroic Lessons
• Innocent Places
• The Mark of Shame
• The Land-Shape of Memory ancl Tradition
• Stigmata of National Identity
• Invisible and Shadowed Pasts
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Kenneth E. Foote is Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directs the Center for Geographic Education.

Reviews

[Shadowed Ground] is a fundamental and enjoyable piece of work, that foregrounds the basic ideas in understanding these relationships. Too often it seems so obvious that rich meaning can be deducted from the physical landscape around us (or our relationship to it), so much so, that these reflections can often be overlooked, yet Foote describes these interpretations and ideas clearly.
*Kitty Taylor (Geography Blog)*