Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia
Author:   Jennifer Wellington (University College Dublin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   53
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9781107135079


Pages:   366
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jennifer Wellington (University College Dublin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   53
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781107135079


ISBN 10:   1107135079
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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'Exhibiting War is an exhaustively researched and highly persuasive work. It synthesises a vast field of scholarship and successfully examines a formidable body of archives located in three different countries. The prose is engaging, the analysis sharp and ... its content fresh and original.' Bruce Scates, Australian Historical Studies 'Exhibiting War is an exhaustively researched and highly persuasive work. It synthesises a vast field of scholarship and successfully examines a formidable body of archives located in three different countries. The prose is engaging, the analysis sharp and ... its content fresh and original.' Bruce Scates, Australian Historical Studies


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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.

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