Format:
1 online resource (366 pages)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783515121781
Content:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTIVE SECTION -- (Maurizio Giangiulio) Do Societies Remember? The Notion of 'Collective Memory': Paradigms and Problems (from Maurice Halbwachs on) -- (Elena Franchi) Memories of Winners and Losers. Historical Remarks on why Societies Remember and Commemorate Wars -- (Giorgia Proietti) Can an Ancient Truth Become an Old Lie? A Few Methodological Remarks Concerning Current Comparative Research on War and its Aftermath -- SECTION I: WAR MEMORIALS: OBJECTS IN PERFORMANCE -- (Lilah Grace Canevaro) Commemoration through Objects? Homer on the Limitations of Material Memory -- (Birgit Bergmann) Beyond Victory and Defeat. Commemorating Battles prior to the Persian Wars -- (Holger Baitinger) Commemoration of War in Archaic and Classical Greece. Battlefields, Tombs and Sanctuaries -- (James Roy) Memorials of War in Pausanias -- (Nina Fehrlen-Weiss) The Thirty Years' War in German Commemorative Culture from the Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire to the Present - An Overview -- (Simone A. Bellezza) Nation Building through Commemoration: Stalinism, WWII, and Holocaust Memorials in Post-Soviet Ukraine -- SECTION II: WAR DEAD: FROM CITIZENS TO SYMBOLS -- (Mirko Canevaro) Courage in War and the Courage of the War Dead - Ancient and Modern Reflections -- (Blanka Misic) Cognitive Aspects of Funerary Commemoration of Soldiers and Veterans in Roman Poetovio -- (Johannes Birgfeld) Commemorating War and War Dead in 18th Century Germany -- (Marco Mondini (with the collaboration of Cecilia Cozzi)) Brothers and Heroes. Literary Sources on Death in the First World War (the Italian Case) -- SECTION III: NARRATIVES OF WAR:HISTORIOGRAPHY, PUBLIC DISCOURSE,AND CULTURAL MEMORY -- (Roel Konijnendijk) Commemoration through Fear: The Spartan Reputation as a Weapon of War.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783515121750
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Commemorating war and war dead Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019 ISBN 9783515121750
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Krieg
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Giangiulio, Maurizio 1957-
Author information:
Proietti, Giorgia 1984-
Author information:
Franchi, Elena 1977-
