Overview

This book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860 to 2014. Moving beyond the social-political circumstances of a memorial’s construction, this study examines memorialisation as a continuing and transformative process. It explores the many ways in which war memorials are repeatedly appropriated, and re-appropriated, undergoing both physical and symbolic transformations. In order to study this full range of transformations, this book presents a unique analytical model that conceptualises objects of memory within three intersecting timescales: the chronological timescale, the conflict timescale and the object timescale. This new methodology facilitates an innovative, holistic approach of understanding engagement with a monument at any given moment in time, allowing meaningful comparisons to be made across both spatial and cultural boundaries. In doing so, it enables an approach to the cultural heritage conflict that moves beyond the socio-political to conceptualise war memorials within a shared cultural experience.

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Author:   Emma Login
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Dimensions:   Width: 20.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781784912574

ISBN 10:   1784912573
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   28 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Background and Literature; Methodology; Early War Memorialisation Processes: O-P =1870-1914; Post-First World War Memorialisation Processes: O-P = 1914-1939; Post-Second World War Memorialisation: O-P = 1939- 2014; Discussion; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Questionnaires; Appendix 2: Historical Background to the Initial Development of the War Memorial Tradition; Appendix 3: 17th Maine Memorial, Gettysburg; Bibliography

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