History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation - Trafalgar 1805-2005

Klappentext This is a critical reflection on the complex notions of remembrance, celebration, and commemoration using as its basis historical snapshots of the commemoration of Nelson at his death, in 1905, and in contemporary Britain, Zusammenfassung This is a critical reflection on the complex notions of remembrance, celebration, and commemoration using as its basis historical snapshots of the commemoration of Nelson at his death, in 1905, and in contemporary Britain, Inhaltsverzeichnis Marking Time 'His dirge our groans - his monument our praise': Official and Popular Commemoration of Nelson in 1805/6 Remembering Victory - Commemorating Defeat? The Franco-British Trafalgar Centenary in 1905 Nelson the Hero and Horatio the Lover: Projections of the Myth in Canada, the Cinema, and Culture Trafalgar: Back on the Map of British Popular Culture? Assessing the 2005 Bicentenary The National Maritime Museum's 2005 exhibition, Nelson and Napoléon: Intention and Reception The Battle of Austerlitz, Collective Amnesia, and the Non-Commemoration of Napoleon in France

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• Authors: Holger (EDT) Hoock
• Assisted by: Holger Hoock (Editor), Holger (Lecturer in British Cultural History Hoock (Editor), Hoock Holger (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2007
• EAN: 9780197264065
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726406-5
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 13 mm
• Series: British Academy Occasional Papers; British Academy Occasional Pap; British Academy Original Paperbacks; British Academy Occasional Papers; British Academy Occasional Pap
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Modern warfare