Media, Memory, and the First World War 9780773585331, 9780773535077

Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Me

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Media, Memory, and the First World War
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Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romanti

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Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between w

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What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented nu

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The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that br

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“The experiences could be understood only as being of such extremity that they stood beyond written words; it was not a

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The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted

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Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories

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This book is a catalogue of most of the uniforms worn by the countries participating in the First World War, between 191

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How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to ca

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