Age of Anniversaries - The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925

List of contents

1 Centenaries, Self-Historicization and the Mobilization of the Masses, T.G. Otte (UEA) 2 America and the King Alfred Millenary Commemorations, Erik Goldstein (Boston) 3 An Entente Centenary: Commemorating Trafalgar without wounding "the susceptibilities of France", Andrew Lambert (KCL) 4 "Offensive to national sentiment"?: The Bicentenary of the Union of 1707, Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh) 5 The Limits of Nationalist Imagination in the Poltava and Bessarabia Ceremonials in the Russian Empire, George Gilbert (Southampton) 6 Peace and War: Anglo-American Centenary Projects and the Lincoln Statue Controversy, 1910-1927, Geoff Hicks (UEA) 7 Commemorating Jan Hus, Creating a Czechoslovak State: The 1915 Quincentenary, Cynthia Paces (New Jersey) 8 The Cult of the Fallen Soldier in France during the Great War: Between Tradition and Modernity, Christina Theodosiou (Paris) 9 Political Centenary Commemorations in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, Roland Quinault (London) 10 Commemoration through Dramatic Performance: Historical Pageants and the Age of Anniversaries, 1905-1920, Angela Bartie (Edinburgh), Linda Fleming (Glasgow), Mark Freeman (UCL), Tom Hulme (KCL) and Paul Readman (KCL)

About the author

T. G. Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Summary

For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present.

Product details

• Authors: T. G. Otte
• Assisted by: T. G. Otte (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367348731
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34873-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Diplomacy