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Remembering war :

0300110685 (hard cover : alk. paper)

9780300110685 (hard cover : alk. paper)

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Remembering war :

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the Great War between memory and history in the twentieth century /

Jay Winter

New Haven [Conn.] :

Yale University Press,

c2006

viii, 340 p. :

ill. ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-329) and index

Introduction : war, memory, remembrance -- pt. one: War and remembrance. The setting : the Great War in the memory boom of the twentieth century -- Shell shock, memory, and identity -- pt. two: Practices of remembrance. All quiet on the Eastern front : photography and remembrance -- War letters : cultural memory and the "Soldiers' Tale" of the Great War -- Ironies of war : intellectual styles and responses to the Great War in Britain and France -- War memorials : a social agency interpretation -- War, migration, and remembrance : Britain and her dominions -- pt. three: Theaters of memory. Grand illusions : war, film, and collective memory -- Between history and memory : television, public history, and historical scholarship -- War museums : the historical and historical scholarship -- "Witness to a time" : authority, experience, and the two World Wars -- pt. Four: The memory boom and the twentieth century. Controversies and conclusions

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"This is a volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says." "The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory and then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"--Film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole."--Jacket

Civilization, Modern-- 20th century

Memory-- Social aspects

War and society

World War, 1914-1918

Winter, J. M

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