Memory and memorials : the commemorative century /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004. |
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| Description: | xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern economic and social history series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5370169 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1. Memorials and remembrance, 1915-30
- 1. Rodin's Bourgeois de Calais: commemorating a French national ideal in London
- 2. Making the Great War great: 1914-18 war memorials in Wallonia
- 3. Belonging to a 'grandiose' family: visual memory and representations of the chain of solidarity between the generations in French First World War culture
- 4. The Scottish National War Memorial
- 5. Ordeal and re-affirmation: masculinity and the construction of Scottish and English national identity in Great War memorial sculpture 1919-30
- 6. Memory and prophecy among the war-graves: Hans Chlumberg's drama, Miracle at Verdun
- Part 2. Remembering and forgetting, from the Second World War to the present
- 7. 'To the Lads who came back': memorial windows and Rolls of Honour in Scotland
- 8. War, family, commemoration: a path to history
- 9. Remembering and embroidering in Jean Rouaud's family cycle
- 10. Communal myth and silenced memories: the unremembered experience of Italians in Scotland during the Second World War
- 11. Liberating France without the French: grammars of representation
- 12. The victims of the purges in Liberation France: between memory, oblivion and catharsis
- Part 3. Collective memory in question: challenge and reconstruction?
- 13. Memory, distortion and the war in German popular culture: the case of Konsalik
- 14. The problematic commemoration of war in the early films of Alain Resnais
- 15. Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Louis Malle and the ambiguous memory of French fascism
- 16. Occupation memories: French history and the Aubrac affair in the 1990s
- 17. Transmission of memory in the classroom: France and the Algerian war in the 1990s
- 18. From 'hereditary enmity' to Franco-German entente: shared memory and the construction of friendship
- Index
