Tombs of the great leaders : a contemporary guide / Gwendolyn Leick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leick, Gwendolyn, 1951-2022, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tombs--History.

Tombs.

History.

Physical Description:

1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm

Contents:

1 Enduring Signification: Mounds, Monuments and Mausolea 11

Stone Age Burials

Bronze Age Elite Tombs

Hellenistic Eclecticism and the Invention of the Mausoleum

Roman Imperial Tombs

Royal Burials of Christian Monarchs in the Middle Ages

The Impact of the French Revolution

Napoleon's Tomb

Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois

2 Safeguarding the Immortality of Revolutionary Leaders: Mausolea in Communist Countries 31

Lenin's Tomb

The Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh

Mao Zedong Memorial Hall

Kumsusan Memorial Hall, 'The Sacred Temple of Juche

Destroyed Communist Mausolea

3 Fantasy and Reality: The Burial Places of Fascist Leaders 98

Mussolini's Crypt in Predappio

Franco and the Righteous Fallen in Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos

4 New Nations, New Monuments: Mausolea for Fathers of the Nation 119

Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum (Lingmu) on Purple Mountain

Anitkabir: The Memorial Tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mazar-e-Quaid-e-Azam, "The Mausoleum of the Great Leader', Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi

The Mausoleum of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka

5 Not the Final Resting Place: Temporary Mausolea 188

Chiang Kai-shek at Chihu, Taiwan

Yasser Arafat at Ramallah

6 Appropriated Traditions 213

Sukarno and Suharto in Java

The Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran

7 Political Mausolea in Africa 240

North African Mausolea

Sub-Saharan Mausolea

Dr Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra

The Mausoleum of M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Kinshasa

The Mausoleum of Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Lilongwe, Malawi

The Tomb of Dr John Garang de Mabior, Juba, South Sudan

Reinventing the Political Tomb in Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780232003

1780232004

9781780232263

1780232268

OCLC:

871515941