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David William Lloyd

Battlefield Tourism

Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939

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In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada. The author demonstrates that high and low culture, tradition and modernism, the sacred and the profane were often inter-related, rather than polar opposites. The various responses to the actual and imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as bereavement and how this was shaped by gender, r… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-84520-739-7
  • EAN: 9781845207397
  • Produktnummer: 18391752
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 13'649 KB
  • Abbildungen: illustrations, bibliography, index

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David William Lloyd David Lloyd,formerly of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

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