Scotland and the First World War : myth, memory, and the legacy of Bannockburn /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press : Co-published by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Aperçus : histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series
Subject:	World War, 1914-1918 -- Scotland. Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Anniversaries, etc. Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Influence. Collective memory -- Scotland -- History. War memorials -- Scotland -- History. Myth -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- History. Nationalism -- Scotland -- History. War and society -- Scotland -- History. Anniversaries. Collective memory. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Nationalism. War and society. War memorials. Scotland. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562319

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Other authors / contributors:	Plain, Gill, editor.
ISBN:	9781611487770 1611487773 9781611487763 9781611487787 1611487765
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 01/29/2021).
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"--Provided by publisher
Other form:	Print version: Scotland and the First World War. Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] 9781611487763

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Anniversary culture and the legacy of Bannockburn / Gill Plain
Part I. Anniversary culture
Missing dates and magic numbers : reflections on 1914 / Fran Brearton
Bruce, Wallace and the diminished present, 1800-1964 / Graeme Morton
Part II. Making the myths of war and nation
"Men brave and strong" : Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish martial identity in the late Middle Ages / Michael Brown
"Not my land's hills" : war and the problem of Scottish homecoming / Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Medieval battlefields and national narratives, 1830-1918 / Carol Symes
Bannockburn after Baston / Robert Crawford
Part III. Making the memory of the First World War
"The spirit of the crusaders" : Scottish peculiarities, British commonalities and European convergences in the memorialisation of the Great War / Stefan Goebel
Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond : popular histories of Scotland's martial past / Catriona M.M. Macdonald
Women, war and internationalism : notes towards a counter-history / Margaret R. Higonnet
Freedom from judgement above? : predestination and cultural trauma in Scottish Gaelic poetry of World War I / Peter Mackay
Shades of Bruce : independence and union in First-World War Scottish literature / David Goldie.

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