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Remembering the First World War
Title
Remembering the First World War / edited by Bart Ziino.
ISBN
9780415856287
0415856280
9780415856324
0415856329
9781315738437
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Physical Description
xiv, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2015
Series
Remembering the modern world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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