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The Heritage of War.
The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Colección: | Key issues in cultural heritage.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Heritage of War; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Series general co-editors foreword; Introduction: the heritage of war: agency, contingency, identity; PART 1 Remembering and representing war; Chapter 1 Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma railway; Chapter 2 Victory and defeat at Dien Bien Phu: memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France; Chapter 3 War monuments in East and West Berlin: Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial?
- Chapter 4 'Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks': an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa?Chapter 5 Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields; PART II Identities; Chapter 6 'Our ancestors the Incas': Andean warring over the conquering pasts; Chapter 7 'We are talking about Gallipoli after all': contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula; Chapter 8 Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali; Chapter 9 Remembering and forgetting: South Asia and the Second World War; PART III The politics of reconstruction.
- Chapter 10 Reconstruction over ruins: rebuilding Dresden's FrauenkircheChapter 11 Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions: the case of Mitrovica, Kosovo; Chapter 12 Reconstruction as exclusion: Beirut; Index.