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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 themat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Plain, Gill (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press : Co-published by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Colección:Aperçus : histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Anniversary culture and the legacy of Bannockburn / Gill Plain
  • Part I. Anniversary culture
  • Missing dates and magic numbers : reflections on 1914 / Fran Brearton
  • Bruce, Wallace and the diminished present, 1800-1964 / Graeme Morton
  • Part II. Making the myths of war and nation
  • "Men brave and strong" : Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish martial identity in the late Middle Ages / Michael Brown
  • "Not my land's hills" : war and the problem of Scottish homecoming / Caroline McCracken-Flesher
  • Medieval battlefields and national narratives, 1830-1918 / Carol Symes
  • Bannockburn after Baston / Robert Crawford
  • Part III. Making the memory of the First World War
  • "The spirit of the crusaders" : Scottish peculiarities, British commonalities and European convergences in the memorialisation of the Great War / Stefan Goebel
  • Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond : popular histories of Scotland's martial past / Catriona M.M. Macdonald
  • Women, war and internationalism : notes towards a counter-history / Margaret R. Higonnet
  • Freedom from judgement above? : predestination and cultural trauma in Scottish Gaelic poetry of World War I / Peter Mackay
  • Shades of Bruce : independence and union in First-World War Scottish literature / David Goldie.