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Memorials of the Great War in Britain : the Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance.
Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective express...
| 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: | Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author argu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781845209520 1845209524 9781472578037 1472578031 |