Legacies of War - Enduring Memories, Persistent Patterns

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Leaning is Director of the Harvard FXB Center and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University. Klappentext With a lens trained on how civilians and soldiers remember the experience of armed conflict, Legacies of War challenges narrow conceptions of the cost of war. The book identifies significant trends in the conduct of war, and traces how these are rendered in social rituals of interpretation, commemoration, expiation, or avoidance. Zusammenfassung With a lens trained on how civilians and soldiers remember the experience of armed conflict, Legacies of War challenges narrow conceptions of the cost of war. The book identifies significant trends in the conduct of war, and traces how these are rendered in social rituals of interpretation, commemoration, expiation, or avoidance.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Leaning
• Assisted by: Jennifer Leaning (Editor), Leaning Jennifer (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.11.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9780674987791
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98779-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Colonialism & imperialism, Political structure & processes, Colonialism and imperialism, Violence in society, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Violence and abuse in society, Political structure and processes, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General