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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Tables; Introduction; Syd's Story; Outline of the Book; Reference; 1 The Gallipoli Campaign; 1.1 From a Demonstration to an Invasion; 1.2 "To the Last Man and the Last Shilling"; 1.3 "A Sort of Miniature Flanders"; 1.4 "Like Corn Before a Scythe"; 1.5 "A Sort of Crimea"; 1.6 Endemic Disorder and Imperial Masculinity; 1.7 Endemic Uncertainty and the Fog of War; 1.8 The Fantasy of "Missed Opportunities"; 1.9 "A Bastard of a Place"; 1.10 Summary; References; 2 National Myths and Gallipoli; 2.1 Roland Barthes on Myth; 2.2 National Myths |
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2.3 The Spirit of Çanakkale2.4 Anzac and British Versions of the Heroic-Romantic War Myth; 2.5 "This Race of Athletes:" Mythologising the Anzacs; 2.6 The Key Anzac Storytellers; 2.7 The Myth of National Exceptionalism; 2.8 Anzac as a "Civil Religion"; 2.9 Summary; References; 3 The Anzac Resurgence and Its Critics; 3.1 Anzac Redux; 3.2 Controversies Surrounding the Anzac Resurgence; 3.3 The Anzac Day Outrage Machine; 3.4 The Commercialisation of Anzac; 3.5 Anzac and the History Wars; 3.6 Anzac and the Militarisation of Australian History and Culture; 3.6.1 The Concept of Militarisation |
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3.6.2 Ontological, Epistemological and Methodological Weaknesses of Militarisation3.6.3 Militarisation and State Politics; 3.6.4 Militarisation and Tourism; 3.6.5 Beyond Militarisation; 3.7 Summary; References; 4 A Transnational Perspective on the Anzac Resurgence; 4.1 The "New" Australian Nationalism of the 1980s; 4.2 Peter Weir's Gallipoli; 4.3 Transnationalism and Anzac Tourism; 4.4 Transnationalism and the Popular Media; 4.5 Anzac as a Floating Signifier; 4.6 Other Drivers of the Anzac Resurgence; 4.7 From Gallipoli to Beersheba; 4.8 Indigenous Pilgrimages at Beersheba; 4.9 Summary |
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6.3.2 "I Felt a Knot in My Stomach"6.3.3 "It Was a Surreal Feeling"; 6.3.4 "It Was like Swimming Through History"; 6.4 Tourists' Final Reflections; 6.5 Emotionally Embodying Transnational Empathy; 6.6 Educational Examples of Transnational Empathy; 6.7 Summary; References; 7 Epilogue; References |
| Summary |
This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists. Challenging the straightforward view of the Anzac obsession as a kind of nationalistic military Halloween, it shows how transnational developments in tourism and commemoration have created the conditions for a complex, dissonant emotional experience of sadness, humility, anger, pride and empathy among Anzac tourists. Drawing on the in-depth testimonies of travellers from Australia and New Zealand, McKay shines a new and more complex light on the history and cultural politics of the Anzac myth. As well as making a ground breaking, empirically-based intervention into the culture wars, this book offers new insights into the global memory boom and transnational developments in backpacker tourism, sports tourism and "dark" or "dissonant" tourism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 7, 2018) |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History
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Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps fast |
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Heritage tourism -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
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Anzac Day -- History
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Middle East -- Turkey.
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Anzac Day
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Heritage tourism
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Military campaigns
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- History, Military
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Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811300264 |
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9811300267 |
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