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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Wellington (University College Dublin)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9781316501023ISBN 10: 1316501027 Pages: 365 Publication Date: 11 July 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart 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.Reviews'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 Author InformationJennifer 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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