Troubled Commemoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Troubled Commemoration write by Robert Cook. This book was released on 2007-06. Troubled Commemoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Troubled Commemoration, Robert J. Cook recounts the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of United States Civil War Centennial and reveals how the broad-based public history extravaganza was derailed by its appearance during the decisive phase of the civil rights movement.
On Commemoration
On Commemoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Commemoration write by Catherine Gilbert. This book was released on 2020. On Commemoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "War has been commemorated since ancient times. The recent First World War centenaries are proof that remembering conflict continues to produce strong feelings among people of all walks of life. But how, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished individuals - poets, an international human rights advocate, musicians, policy-makers, novelists, academics, a sculptor, a world-renowned architect, members of different faiths, composers, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and military veterans - debate these questions and ponder the future of commemoration. The book focuses on three modes of commemoration: Textual Commemoration - commemoration in writing and images; Monumental Commemoration - monuments, architecture, museums, sculptures, battlefields and sites of mourning; Aural Commemoration - music, sound and silence. Polemics and reflections together with poetry and creative prose movingly illuminate a subject that is sensitive and sobering but which also speaks to our common humanity"--
Cultures of Commemoration
Cultures of Commemoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultures of Commemoration write by P.J. Rhodes. This book was released on 2012-05-10. Cultures of Commemoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
Honoring the Civil War Dead
Honoring the Civil War Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honoring the Civil War Dead write by John R. Neff. This book was released on 2005. Honoring the Civil War Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his estimation, Northerners were just as active as Southerners in myth-making after the war. Crafting a "Cause Victorious" myth that was every bit as resonant and powerful as the much better-known "Lost Cause" myth cherished by Southerners, the North asserted through commemorations the existence of a loyal and reunified nation long before it was actually a fact. Neff reveals that as Northerners and Southerners honored their separate dead, they did so in ways that underscore the limits of reconciliation between Union and Confederate veterans, whose mutual animosities lingered for many decades after the need of the war. Ultimately, Neff argues that the process of reunion and reconciliation that has been so much the focus of recent literature either neglects or dismisses the persistent reluctance of both Northerners and Southerners to "forgive and forget," especially where their dead were concerned.
Commemorating War
Commemorating War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commemorating War write by Graham Dawson. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Commemorating War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes that have led to this development, among them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood. Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe. Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society.
