Jennifer Wellington

Exhibiting War

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Produktbeschreibung

A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781316501023
• ISBN-10: 1316501027
• Artikelnr.: 57030981

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Wellington is Lecturer in Modern History at University College Dublin. She received honours degrees in Law and English from the Australian National University. Following this, she completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University, Connecticut, where her thesis was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in a Field of European History. She regularly gives public lectures in museums, libraries, and schools, and appears as a panellist at public events as well as on radio and television.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. In search of the 'authentic' experience of war, 1914-17; Part
II: 2. Exhibiting for victory: travelling war photography displays,
1917-20; 3. Art exhibitions: a higher truth in aid of victory and for
posterity; 4. Taming the monsters of war: exhibiting weapons and war
trophies 1917-20; Part III: 5. Consolidations: creating national museums
and narratives of war, 1920-35; 6. Museums, monuments, and memory:
exhibiting war as part of national and imperial commemorative projects
since 1925.