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Scotland and the First World War : Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn.

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brearton, Fran
Otros Autores: McCracken-Flesher, Caroline, Crawford, Robert, Goebel, Stefan, Goldie, David, Higonnet, Margaret R., MacDonald, Catriona M. M., Mackay, Peter, Plain, Gill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cranbury : Bucknell University Press, 2016.
Colección:Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anniversary Culture and the Legacy of Bannockburn; Part I. ANNIVERSARY CULTURE; Chapter 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914; Chapter 2. Bruce, Wallace, and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964; Part II. MAKING THE MYTHS OF WAR AND NATION; Chapter 3. "Men Brave and Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance, and Scottish Martial Identity in the Late Middle Ages; Chapter 4. "Not My Land's Hills": War and the Problem of Scottish Homecoming; Chapter 5. Medieval Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918.
  • Chapter 6. Bannockburn after BastonPart III. MAKING THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; Chapter 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British Commonalities, and European Convergences in the Memorialization of the Great War; Chapter 8. Buchan, Bannockburn, and Beyond: Popular Histories of Scotland's Martial Past; Chapter 9. Women, War, and Internationalism: Notes toward a Counterhistory; Chapter 10. Freedom from Judgment Above?: Predestination and Cultural Trauma in Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I.
  • Chapter 11. Shades of Bruce: Independence and Union in First World War Scottish LiteratureBibliography; Index; About the Contributors.