Memory and Modern British Politics - Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy

This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World.As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of ''dead generations''. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.>

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Roberts
• Assisted by: Matthew Roberts (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781350190719
• ISBN: 978-1-350-19071-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain