Remembering War The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century

Name: Remembering War The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780300110685

ISBN-10: 0300110685

ISBN-13: 9780300110685

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jay Winter

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This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction : war, memory, remembrance



The setting : the Great War in the memory boom of the twentieth century



Shell shock, memory, and identity



All quiet on the eastern front : photography and remembrance



War letters : cultural memory and the "soldiers' tale" of the Great War



Ironies of war : intellectual styles and responses to the Great War in Britain and France



War memorials : a social agency interpretation



War, migration, and remembrance : Britain and her dominions



Grand illusions : war, film, and collective memory



Between history and memory : television, public history, and historical scholarship



War museums : the Historial and historical scholarship



"Witness to a time" : authority, experience, and the two World Wars



Controversies and conclusions