Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
ISBN-10
0521574536
ISBN-13
9780521574532
Category
History
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
1996-07-13
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Jay Winter

Description

Jay Winter's powerful and substantial new study of the "collective remembrance" of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a wide variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr. Winter looks anew at the ways, many of them highly traditional, in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after the carnage of the First World War. The result is a profound and moving book, of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

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