Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War In European Cultural History (Canto Classics) - Softcover

Winter, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110766165X ISBN 13: 9781107661653

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history. A book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Críticas:

'No one interested in the broad impact of the First World War, or the cultural history of the twentieth century, can afford to neglect this book.' The Times Literary Supplement

'One seldom puts down a work of history with such a feeling of having penetrated to the bedrock of emotions that inspired a time that now seems very far away, very different, and very past.' The Journal of Modern History

Reseña del editor:

Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914–18, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 110766165X
• ISBN 13: 9781107661653
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320