Cultures of Commemoration
War Memorials, Ancient and Modern
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 160;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 May 2012
- ISBN 9780197264669
- Binding Book
- No. of pages214 pages
- Size 241x164x19 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
MoreLong description:
This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies
The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings
Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World
The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion
Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe
Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials
Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society
