This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says.
ISBN: | 9780300110685 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Imprint: | Yale University Press |
Published date: | 01 May 2006 |
DEWEY: | 940.314 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 340 |
Weight: | 520g |
Height: | 215mm |
Width: | 138mm |
Spine width: | 28mm |