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War, Culture and Memory
- Published Date: 01 Dec 2003
- Publisher: OPEN UNIVERSITY WORLDWIDE
- Format: Paperback::369 pages, ePub
- ISBN10: 0749296119
- ISBN13: 9780749296117
- File size: 34 Mb
- Dimension: 189x 245x 20mm
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This volume examines the impact of the wars in the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1830, focusing both on the military, economic, political, social and cultural demobilization that occurred immediately at their end, and their long-term legacy and memory. "The book fleshes out a powerful genealogy for multidirectional memory as well as a more sustained account of how, more specifically, Holocaust memory and colonial memory come together in France around the legacy of the Algerian War." —Laura Levitt, H-Net Reviews "Ground-breaking book Thanks to Rothberg, we are able to engage more A volume in the Brill series “History of Warfare,” Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War is a necessary read for students of Spanish history, and is also likely to be of use to those interested in the evolution of historiography or of historical memory. Rogue Archives looks at digital cultural memory, and how those involved in creating online content (particularly fan fiction, and the resulting fan fiction archives) are changing the hegemony of culture as defined the creative industries. This groundbreaking text details how people are working together to create a nuanced and more inclusive / The great war and the British Empire:Conflict, culture and memory. The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and Society. 1st. Ed. Routledge, 2016. Pp. 3-22 (Routledge Studies in First World War History ). Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind. The “Good War” in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's meaning reveals that the idea of the "good war" was highly contested. About War and Peace. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels PBS’s The Great American Read Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. About British Cultural Memory and the Second World War. Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory since 1936 – review Jeremy Treglown has written an elegant but deeply flawed book about the fraught battles over Spain's dark past Helen Graham 'Challenge the Colour of War Memory': Recovering India's First World War Culture. Santanu Das speaks going beyond the history of medals and memorials to 'worlds of feeling and experience' in his One of them is the late Paul Fussell’s dazzling, groundbreaking account of the way the trauma of the first World War changed western culture. The Great War and Modern Memory, first published in Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York, UK. His research and teaching focuses on modern French and European history. His most recent books are Waterloo (2015); and War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, ed. With Étienne François and Karen Hagemann (2012). Sturken suggests that ‘cultural memory is a central aspect of how American culture functions and how the nation is defined’. 26 This book explores the stakes of cultural remembering in the United States and the means which memory has been figured through, and in relation to, Hollywood cinema. The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and passing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of thirteen cities worldwide and the lived experience of urban communities during the long… Volume 1: Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-22: Book 2. Political Culture, Identities, Mentalities, and Memory. Murray Frame, Boris Kolonitskii, Steven G. Marks, and Melissa K. Stockdale, eds. $44.95. 978-0-89357-424-6. 370. 2014. Paperback.Culture Volume Book 2 Table of Culture Volume Book 2 Russia's Great War & Revolution Series. This book is one of a two … Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind. Never forget? Memory’s role in Irish culture From 1916 to the Troubles, the Famine to institutional child abuse, what we remember and what we choose to forget is worth studying "An innovative attempt to trace the "absent presence of war memories" in the cultural discourse of postwar Japan. The author's juxtaposition of examples from different cultural registers is distinctive, persuasive, and provocative, and the book is a pleasure to read."—Carol Gluck, Columbia University The book should be considered anyone interested in collective memory, national identity, World War II, or Japanese history." -Social Forces "Akiko Hashimoto's new study, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory and Identity in Japan, suggests things are far more complicated She sees not a nation in denial but one in which there are many The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written Paul Fussell and published in 1975 Oxford University Press.It describes the literary responses English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench warfare.The perceived futility and insanity of this conduct became, for many gifted Englishmen of their generation, a metaphor for life. European Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany and Europe have become in the last two decades a major interdisciplinary research field, and their contributions to twentieth-century culture are famous. This volume grew out of a conference on “Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture,” organized the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar and the Duke-UNC Jewish Studies “The Great War in Russian Memory is an important addition to both the literature on World War I and Russian/Soviet historiography. It provides fertile ground for further research, which should aim to go beyond accepted paradigms about the European experience and examine how Russian memory became Soviet. ” — Laboratorium 'The book is a benchmark in placing the unexamined colonial histories at par with the far better understood cultural historiography of the Western participants. His examination of the use of war memory and commemoration in the recent past is outstanding for the questions it raises. The work is breathtaking in its scope and depth and is an Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images is a collection of what art historian and curator Julian Stallabrass describes as “loosely associated essays and interviews” on political images and the politics of image-making during war, with a focus on the recent war in Iraq. While photography has played a role in the portrayal of large-scale conflict since World War I, Iraq was the … Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated and continue to illuminate the War today. "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory": David W. Blight's book, published in 2001, explores how the past is connected to the present looking at the ways in which Americans have
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