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Battlefield Tourism : Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939.
In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this ''battlefield tourism'' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to const...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
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| Colección: | Legacy of the Great War.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this ''battlefield tourism'' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada. The author demonstrates that high and low culture, tradition and modernism, the sacred and the profane were often inter-related, rather than polar opposites. The various responses to the actual and imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845207397 1845207394 9781472578082 1472578082 |