Exhibiting War - The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Wellington is Lecturer in Modern History at University College Dublin. She received honours degrees in Law and English from the Australian National University. Following this, she completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University, Connecticut, where her thesis was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in a Field of European History. She regularly gives public lectures in museums, libraries, and schools, and appears as a panellist at public events as well as on radio and television. Klappentext A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War. Zusammenfassung How and why do societies exhibit war? Jennifer Wellington offers an illuminating portrayal of how national and imperial war museums in Britain! Canada and Australia developed diverging narratives of the First World War and how representations of mass violence have changed from the aftermath of the war to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. In search of the 'authentic' experience of war, 1914-17; Part II: 2. Exhibiting for victory: travelling war photography displays, 1917-20; 3. Art exhibitions: a higher truth in aid of victory and for posterity; 4. Taming the monsters of war: exhibiting weapons and war trophies 1917-20; Part III: 5. Consolidations: creating national museums and narratives of war, 1920-35; 6. Museums, monuments, and memory: exhibiting war as part of national and imperial commemorative projects since 1925.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Wellington, Jennifer (University College Dublin) Wellington
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316501023
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50102-3
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on demand; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Canada, First World War, Australia, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Museology & heritage studies