Remembering the First World War

"Discusses how and why the First World War is remembered, looking at family history, practices of remembering through film, literature, monuments and museums, and public rituals of remembrance throughout the world"--Provided by the publisher.

List of contents

Series editors’ foreword. Acknowledgements. List of figures. List of contributors. Introduction: Remembering the First World War today Bart Ziino Section 1. Family history, genealogy and the First World War 1. Great Grand-father, What Did You Do in the Great War? The Phenomenon of Conducting First World War Family History Research James Wallis 2. Family history and the Great War in Australia Carolyn Holbrook and Bart Ziino Section 2. Practices of remembering 3. Framing the Great War in Britain: Modern Mediated Memories Ross Wilson 4. Teaching and Remembrance in English secondary schools Ann-Marie Einhaus and Catriona Pennell 5.Museums, Architects and Artists on the Western Front: new commemoration for a new history? Annette Becker 6. Music and Remembrance: Britain and the First World War Peter Grant and Emma Hanna Section 3. The return of the War 7. ‘Now Russia Returns its History to Itself’: Russia Celebrates the Centenary of the First World War Karen Petrone 8. Çanakkale’s Children: The politics of remembering the Gallipoli campaign in contemporary Turkey Vedica Kant 9. Commemoration and the hazards of Irish politics Keith Jeffery 10. Little Flemish Heroes Tombstones: The Great War and Twenty-First Century Belgian Politics Karen Shelby 11. Between the Topos of a ‘Forgotten War’ and the Current Memory Boom. Remembering the First World War in Austria Sabine A. Haring Afterword: Remembering the First World War: an international perspective David Reynolds

About the author

Edited by Ziino, Bart

Product details

• Authors: Bart Ziino, Bart (Deakin University Ziino
• Assisted by: Bart Ziino (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2014
• EAN: 9780415856287
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85628-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Remembering the Modern World; Remembering the Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: theory & methods, First World War, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, History: theory and methods, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I