Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 349 pages)
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ISBN:
9781316471388
Series Statement:
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Content:
What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture with the past, Australia and Canada came to see it as engendering national birth through violence. Narratives of the war's meaning were deliberately constructed by individuals and groups pursuing specific agendas: to win the war and immortalise it at the same time. Drawing on a range of documentary and visual material, this book analyses how narratives of mass violence changed over time. Emphasising the contingent development of national and imperial war museums, it illuminates the way they acted as spaces in which official, academic and popular representations of this violent past intersect
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107135079
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316501023
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107135079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wellington, Jennifer Exhibiting war Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781107135079
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
General works
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Kanada
;
Australien
;
Erster Weltkrieg
;
Ausstellung
;
Museum
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte 1914-2017
DOI:
10.1017/9781316471388
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