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Memory and memorials : the commemorative century / edited by William Kidd and Brian Murdoch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Modern economic and social history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War memorials--Congresses.
- War memorials.
- Memory--Congresses.
- Memory.
- War and society--Congresses.
- War and society.
- World War, 1914-1918--Memorials--Congresses.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Memorials--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Memorials.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Memorials and remembrance, 1915-30 11
- 1 Rodin's Bourgeois de Calais: commemorating a French national ideal in London / Axel Lapp 13
- 2 Making the Great War great: 1914-18 war memorials in Wallonia / Laurence van Ypersele 26
- 3 Belonging to a 'grandiose' family: visual memory and representations of the chain of solidarity between the generations in French First World War culture / Marie-Monique Huss 41
- 4 The Scottish National War Memorial / Angus Calder 61
- 5 Ordeal and re-affirmation: masculinity and the construction of Scottish and English national identity in Great War memorial sculpture 1919-30 / J.A. Black 75
- 6 Memory and prophecy among the war-graves: Hans Chlumberg's drama, Miracle at Verdun / Brian Murdoch 92
- Part 2 Remembering and forgetting, from the Second World War to the present 105
- 7 'To the Lads who came back': memorial windows and Rolls of Honour in Scotland / William Kidd 107
- 8 War, family, commemoration: a path to history / J.-S Seriot 127
- 9 Remembering and embroidering in Jean Rouaud's family cycle / Geoff Woollen 140
- 10 Communal myth and silenced memories: the unremembered experience of Italians in Scotland during the Second World War / Wendy Ugolini 151
- 11 Liberating France without the French: grammars of representation / Hilary Footitt 167
- 12 The victims of the purges in Liberation France: between memory, oblivion and catharsis / Francois Rouquet 179
- Part 3 Collective memory in question: challenge and reconstruction? 193
- 13 Memory, distortion and the war in German popular culture: the case of Konsalik / Maggie Sargeant 195
- 14 The problematic commemoration of war in the early films of Alain Resnais / Alastair Duncan 207
- 15 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Louis Malle and the ambiguous memory of French fascism / Hugo Frey 220
- 16 Occupation memories: French history and the Aubrac affair in the 1990s / Hanna Diamond, Claire Gorrara 233
- 17 Transmission of memory in the classroom: France and the Algerian war in the 1990s / Jo McCormack 245
- 18 From 'hereditary enmity' to Franco-German entente: shared memory and the construction of friendship / Jean-Marc Trouille 261.
- Notes:
- Based on the Stirling War and Memory conference held at the University of Stirling on March 18-19, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754607356
- OCLC:
- 53485526
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