Remembrance today : poppies, grief and heroism /

Proposing a return to the original ideas of Remembrance, and suggesting many changes to the modern-day spectacle, this book is a powerful polemic on how our ideas of heroism, duty, and grief have lost their way. The text calls for a re-focusing of Remembrance from its divisive tradition to a more un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrison, Ted
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books, ©2012.
Temas:
War and society.
Memorial rites and ceremonies.
Collective memory.
Guerre et société.
Rites et cérémonies commémoratifs.
Mémoire collective.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Collective memory
Memorial rites and ceremonies
War and society
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The mists and myths of war
  • Lest we forget
  • The remembrance debate
  • The season of the dead
  • The realities of war
  • The reasons for war
  • The poppy, then and now
  • A history of the hero
  • Remembrance in the twenty-first century
  • Postscript: some practical changes.

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