War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

Winter, Jay and Sivan, Emmanuel (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0521640350 / ISBN 13: 9780521640350

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Dust jacket complete Original black cloth with bright silver titling on spine. 260 pages clean and tight. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. This volume, containing essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. The behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, is discussed by examining the traumatic collective memory resulting from the horrors of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War. By studying public forms of remembrance, such as museums and exhibitions, literature and film, the editors have succeeded in bringing together a volume which demonstrates that a popular kind of collective memory is still very much alive. Size: 8vo.

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• Titre: War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521640350
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521640350
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. This volume, containing essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. The behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, is discussed by examining the traumatic collective memory resulting from the horrors of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War. By studying public forms of remembrance, such as museums and exhibitions, literature and film, the editors have succeeded in bringing together a volume which demonstrates that a popular kind of collective memory is still very much alive.