War Beyond Words - Languages of Remembrance From the Great War to the Present

Presents a panoramic history of transformations in our global imaginings of war from 1914 to the present.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Vectors of Memory: 1. Configuring war; 2. Photographing war; 3. Filming war; 4. Writing war; Part II. Frameworks of Memory: 5. Memory and the sacred: martyrdom in the twentieth century and beyond; 6. The geometry of memory: horizontality and war memorials in the twentieth century and after; 7. War beyond words: shell shock, silence, and memories of war; Conclusion.

About the author

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, Connecticut. He won an Emmy award as co-producer of the BBC/PBS television series 'The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century' (1996), and is a founder of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, an international museum of the Great War inaugurated in 1992. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), editor of America and the Armenian Genocide in 1915 (Cambridge, 2004), and editor-in-chief of the three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War (Cambridge, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Jay Winter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108466615
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46661-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Memorials, monuments