| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) |
| Series |
Remembering the modern world |
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Remembering the modern world.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Remembering the First World War today / Bart Ziino -- SECTION 1. FAMILY HISTORY, GENEALOGY AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- Great grand-father, what did you do in the great war? : the phenomenon of conducting First World War family history research / James Wallis -- Family history and the Great War in Australia / Carolyn Holbrook and Bart Ziino -- SECTION 2. PRACTICES OF REMEMBERING -- Framing the Great War in Britain : modern mediated memories / Ross Wilson -- Teaching and remembrance in English secondary schools / Ann-Marie Einhaus and Catriona Pennell -- Museums, architects and artists on the Western Front : new commemoration for a new history? / Annette Becker -- Music and remembrance : Britain and the First World War / Peter Grant and Emma Hanna -- SECTION 3. THE RETURN OF THE WAR -- 'Now Russia returns its history to itself' : Russia celebrates the centenary of the First World War / Karen Petrone -- Çanakkale's Children : the politics of remembering the Gallipoli Campaign in contemporary Turkey / Vedica Kant -- Commemoration and the hazards of Irish politics / Keith Jeffery -- Little Flemish heroes tombstones : the Great War and twenty-first century Belgian politics / Karen Shelby -- Between the topos of a 'forgotten war' and the current memory boom : remembering the First World War in Austria / Sabine A. Haring -- Afterword -- Remembering the First World War : an international perspective / David Reynolds |
| Summary |
"Discusses how and why the First World War is remembered, looking at family history, practices of remembering through film, literature, monuments and museums, and public rituals of remembrance throughout the world"--Provided by the publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Museums
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Archives
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
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Collective memory.
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Memorialization.
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War memorials.
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commemorations (events)
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war memorials.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Collective memory
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Memorialization
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Museums
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War and literature
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War and motion pictures
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War memorials
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Archives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ziino, Bart, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317573715 |
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1317573714 |
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9781315738437 |
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1315738430 |
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9781317573692 |
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1317573692 |
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9781317573708 |
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1317573706 |
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