ISBN:
9781859731741
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (433 p)
Series Statement:
Legacy of the Great War
Series Statement:
The Legacy of the Great War Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Battlefield Tourism : Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
Battlefields
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World War, 1914-1918 ; Battlefields
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World War, 1914-1918 ; Influence
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World War, 1914-1918 ; Veterans ; Travel
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada. The author demonstrates that high and low culture, tradition and modernism, the sacred and the profane were often inter-related, rather than polar opposites. The various responses to the actual and imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as be
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Tourism and Pilgrimage, 1860-1939; 2 'Just What 'Ave We Won?' Pilgrimages to the Cenotaph and the Grave of the Unknown Warrior; 3 'Murder on Show'? Travel to the Battlefields of the Great War; 4 'A Deeper Awareness of the War and its Import': Pilgrimages to the Battlefields of the Great War; 5 Tourism, Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Australia and Canada, 1919-1939; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; intro; ch01; ch02; ch03; ch04; ch05
Description / Table of Contents:
conclusionImprint Page
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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