Ann-Marie Foster

Family Mourning After War and Disaster in Twentieth-Century Britain (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain to show how families pushed against state-imposed memorial narratives and created objects to enable themselves to mourn. This is a unique, comparative, and domestic perspective on mourning that makes important contributions to the field of death studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192872012
• Artikelnr.: 72268657

Autorenporträt

Ann-Marie Foster is a historian of twentieth century Britain, with research interests in memory studies, ephemera, the history of death, and public history. They previously worked as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, and as a Research Fellow at Northumbria University on the AHRC-funded project 'Ephemera and Writing about War, 1914 to the Present'. Ann-Marie is currently a Chancellor's Fellow at Robert Gordon University and an AHRC Early Career Fellow in Cultural and Heritage Institutions based at Imperial War Museums.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Receiving Death
2: Governing Death
3: Printing Death
4: Domesticating Death
5: Building Legacy
6: Extending Legacy
Conclusion