100 years on: Remembering the First World War
Routledge introduces an exceptionally relevant new book that explores how the Great War is remembered in a historical and transnational context.
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What does it mean to wear a poppy on armistice/remembrance day? How do symbols like this operate today? Remembering the First World War explores these questions and many more. The book brings together a group of international scholars to explain how and why the past quarter of a century has witnessed such an extraordinary increase in global popular and academic interest in the First World War, both as an event and in the ways it is remembered. The contributors discuss this phenomenon across three key areas: remembrance through family history and genealogy; practices and representation of remembering through forms such as film, literature and heritage sites; and the increase in determination among individuals to acknowledge and participate in public rituals of remembrance. |
"This volume … uncovers complex textures of individual and family memories that still shape how Western societies try to remember, and forget, this event one hundred years after its outbreak," says Jason Crouthamel of Grand Valley State University, USA.
With the centenary commemorations having begun earlier this year, this timely book comes at a pivotal moment in the narrative of the First World War.
About the Author
Bart Ziino is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in history at Deakin University.
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