War and Memorials : The Age of Nationalism and the Great War

War and Memorials : The Age of Nationalism and the Great War / Gary Baines, Sarah Betts, Sally Carlton, Sam Edwards, Christopher Goodwin, Chelsea Medlock, Linda Parker, Mary E. Osborne, Hanna Smyth, Frank Jacob, Kenneth Pearl, Frank Jacob, Sarah K. Danielsson, Jeffrey M Shaw, Hiram Kümper, Sabine Müller, Jürgen Angelow, Christian Gerlach, Martin Clauss, Verena Moritz, Stefan Rinke, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Roman Töppel, Jorit Wintjes

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War Memorials were an important element of nation building, for the invention of traditions, and the establishment of historical traditions. Especially nationalist remembrance in the late 19th century and the memory of the First World War stimulated a memorial boom in the period which the present bo...

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MitwirkendeR:
Baines, Gary
Betts, Sarah
Carlton, Sally
Edwards, Sam
Goodwin, Christopher
Medlock, Chelsea
Parker, Linda
Osborne, Mary E.
Smyth, Hanna
HerausgeberIn:
Jacob, Frank
Pearl, Kenneth
Danielsson, Sarah K.
Shaw, Jeffrey M
Kümper, Hiram
Müller, Sabine
Angelow, Jürgen
Gerlach, Christian
Clauss, Martin
Moritz, Verena
Rinke, Stefan
Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie
Töppel, Roman
Wintjes, Jorit
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:War (Hi) Stories ; Volume 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Introduction: War Memorials and Critical Insights into the Human Past / Frank Jacob and Kenneth Pearl
  • A Duty to Remember (and Forget?): A Transnational Perspective on Commemorating War / Gary Baines
  • Sacred Shrines of the Secular Age: War Memorials and Landscape in the Twentieth Century and Beyond / Sam Edwards
  • “… where Liberty was fought for”: Civil War Memorials in England / Sarah Betts
  • Patriotic Nationalism and Valorous Masculinity: The National Monument for the Prussian Wars of Liberation / Christopher Goodwin
  • “They Did Their Bit” – British Animal Welfare Societies and the Memorialization of War Animals since the Anglo-Boer War / Chelsea A. Medlock
  • Identity and Memory at First World War British Imperial Memorials on the Western Front / Hanna Smyth
  • The Construction of a Memorial Space: The Gallipoli Campaign and Spatial Remembrance / Frank Jacob
  • A Living Memorial – The Toc H Movement and Talbot House / Linda Parker
  • Temporary Cenotaph: A Contradiction in Terms? / Sally Carlton
  • “They Did Not Want Great Buildings”: The American and Canadian Legionnaires as Living Memorials / Mary E. Osborne
  • Back Matter
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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