Sites of memory, sites of mourning :: the Great War in European cultural history /

"Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities...

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Main Author: Winter, J. M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edition:Canto edition.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914-18, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:"First published 1995"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-297) and index.
ISBN:9781139939331
1139939335
9781107050631
1107050634
1306578280
9781306578288

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