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The age of anniversaries : the cult of commemoration, 1895-1925 / edited by T.G. Otte.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 46.
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anniversaries--History--20th century.
- Anniversaries.
- Anniversaries--History--19th century.
- Memorialization--Europe--Case studies.
- Memorialization.
- Nationalism--Europe.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Social aspects.
- Collective memory.
- Europe.
- Collective memory--Europe.
- Europe--History--1871-1918--Social aspects.
- Europe--History--1789-1815--Historiography.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Cult of commemoration, 1895-1925
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Contents:
- Centenaries, self-historicization and the mobilization of the masses / T.G. Otte
- America and the King Alfred millenary commemorations / Erik Goldstein
- An entente centenary: commemorating Trafalgar without wounding "the susceptibilities of France" / Andrew Lambert
- "Offensive to national sentiment"?: the bicentenary of the Union of 1707 / Ewen A. Cameron
- The limits of nationalist imagination in the Poltava and Bessarabia ceremonials in the Russian Empire / George Gilbert
- Peace and war: Anglo-American centenary projects and the Lincoln statue controversy, 1910-1927 / Geoffrey Hicks
- Commemorating Jan Hus, creating a Czechoslovak state: the 1915 quincentenary / Cynthia Paces
- The cult of the fallen soldier in France during the Great War: between tradition and modernity / Christina Theodosiou
- Political centenary commemorations in early twentieth-century Britain / Roland Quinault
- Commemoration through dramatic performance: historical pageants and the age of anniversaries, 1905-1920 / Angela Bartie [and 4 others].
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472488794
- 1472488792
- OCLC:
- 1010622057
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