Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto Book) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning This 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War reassesses one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 28 March 1998
- Format: Paperback 322 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | European History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | First World War
- ISBN 13: 9780521639880 ISBN 10: 0521639883
- Sales rank: 183,432
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Full description for Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
Jay Winter's powerful 1998 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.
