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1 online resource (285 pages) |
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Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures |
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Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anniversary Culture and the Legacy of Bannockburn; Part I. ANNIVERSARY CULTURE; Chapter 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914; Chapter 2. Bruce, Wallace, and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964; Part II. MAKING THE MYTHS OF WAR AND NATION; Chapter 3. "Men Brave and Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance, and Scottish Martial Identity in the Late Middle Ages; Chapter 4. "Not My Land's Hills": War and the Problem of Scottish Homecoming; Chapter 5. Medieval Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918 |
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Chapter 6. Bannockburn after BastonPart III. MAKING THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; Chapter 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British Commonalities, and European Convergences in the Memorialization of the Great War; Chapter 8. Buchan, Bannockburn, and Beyond: Popular Histories of Scotland's Martial Past; Chapter 9. Women, War, and Internationalism: Notes toward a Counterhistory; Chapter 10. Freedom from Judgment Above?: Predestination and Cultural Trauma in Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I |
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Chapter 11. Shades of Bruce: Independence and Union in First World War Scottish LiteratureBibliography; Index; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Scotland
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Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Anniversaries, etc
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Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Influence
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Anniversaries
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Scotland
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline
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Crawford, Robert
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Goebel, Stefan
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Goldie, David
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Higonnet, Margaret R
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MacDonald, Catriona M. M
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Mackay, Peter
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Plain, Gill
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| ISBN |
9781611487770 |
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1611487773 |
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