Reflections on the Commemoration of the First World War (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives from the Former British Empire
Redaktion: Monger, David; Murray, Sarah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Historians and heritage professionals assess the First World War's centenary in parts of the former British empire. Did commemoration become celebration? Did the centenary serve social and political functions, create new knowledge, recover marginalised voices, confirm existing clichés? Can its lessons inform future commemorative events?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000281323
• Artikelnr.: 60294843

Autorenporträt

David Monger is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the author of Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale, co-editor of Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia and has written several articles on aspects of First World War history. Sarah Murray is Curatorial Manager at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. She specialises in the history of the First World War and public history. Sarah is the author of A Cartoon War: The Cartoons of the New Zealand Free Lance and New Zealand Observer as Historical Sources, August 1914-November 1918, co-editor of Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia and has both published articles and curated exhibitions on the First World War.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Assessing the Centenary of the First World War; Part I:
Commemoration and the Centenary in Perspective; 1. Colonial Commemoration
in a Time of Multiculturalism: South Asia and the First World War; 2.
Resurrecting Heroes ... or Reinventing Them? Interpretations of the Heroic
in Australian First World War Centenary Commemorations; 3. The First Time
he Felt Truly Australian: Anzac Sport and Australian Nationalism, 1995 -
Today; 4: 'Our War': National Memory, New Zealand and Te Papa's Gallipoli;
Part II: The Centenary in Practice; 5. Voicing War: Canadian Soldiers' Oral
Culture during and after the First World War; 6. New Zealand's War in the
Air: A Centenary Exhibition in Review; 7. Uncovering the Hidden Stories of
the Voices Against War in a New Zealand Province; 8. Reclaiming Salute to
Valour: The Official Canadian Film of the Pilgrimage to the Vimy Monument