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British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Author : Lucy Noakes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441104976
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book British Cultural Memory and the Second World War written by Lucy Noakes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Author : Lucy Noakes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350214583
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book British Cultural Memory and the Second World War written by Lucy Noakes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

Experience and Memory

Author : Jörg Echternkamp
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459881
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Experience and Memory written by Jörg Echternkamp and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people's experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.

Remembering the Second World War

Author : Patrick Finney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351714740
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Second World War written by Patrick Finney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of leading scholars to explore the remembrance of this conflict on a global scale. Conceptually, it is premised on the need to challenge nation-centric approaches in memory studies, drawing strength from recent transcultural, affective and multidirectional turns. Divided into four thematic parts, this book largely focuses on the post-Cold War period, which has seen a notable upsurge in commemorative activity relating to the Second World War and significant qualitative changes in its character. The first part explores the enduring utility and the limitations of the national frame in France, Germany and China. The second explores transnational transactions in remembrance, looking at memories of the British Empire at war, contested memories in East-Central Europe and the transnational campaign on behalf of Japan’s former ‘comfort women’. A third section considers local and sectional memories of the war and the fourth analyses innovative practices of memory, including re-enactment, video gaming and Holocaust tourism. Offering insightful contributions on intriguing topics and illuminating the current state of the art in this growing field, this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the history and memory of the Second World War.

We Can Take It!

Author : Mark Connelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book We Can Take It! written by Mark Connelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " We Can Take It" explores how the memory of the Second World War continues to affect British contemporary life and why the war effort holds an important place in British culture, history and national identity. Connelly explores the way in which the British memory of the Second World War was created during the war, and maintained after it through cultural artifacts such as films, comics, art, literature and toys. Connelly moves away from recent interpretations of the British war effort which have suggested that the rosy vision of cohesion, solidarity and unity is little more than a myth. Britain's role in the war is seen as something that we should be proud of, and need to come to terms with in order to eradicate problems in our national self-perception.

The Great War and Medieval Memory

Author : Stefan Goebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521854156
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Great War and Medieval Memory written by Stefan Goebel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Shakespeare and the Second World War

Author : Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442644028
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Second World War written by Irene Rima Makaryk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society's self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this 'universal' author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 19391945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.

Cultural Memories

Author : Peter Meusburger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048189454
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Memories written by Peter Meusburger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new interpretations of the formation and development of cultural memories from ancient times to the present day. The volume is divided into five interconnected sections. The first section outlines the theoretical considerations that have shaped recent debates about cultural memory. The second section provides detailed case studies of three key themes: the founding myths of the nation-state, the contestation of national collective memories during periods of civil war, and the oral traditions that move beyond national narrative. The third section examines the role of World War II as a pivotal episode in an emerging European cultural memory. The fourth section focuses on cultural memories in postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The fifth and final section extends the study of cultural memory back into premodern tribal and nomadic societies.

Remembering the Second World War

Author : Patrick Finney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351714759
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Second World War written by Patrick Finney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of leading scholars to explore the remembrance of this conflict on a global scale. Conceptually, it is premised on the need to challenge nation-centric approaches in memory studies, drawing strength from recent transcultural, affective and multidirectional turns. Divided into four thematic parts, this book largely focuses on the post-Cold War period, which has seen a notable upsurge in commemorative activity relating to the Second World War and significant qualitative changes in its character. The first part explores the enduring utility and the limitations of the national frame in France, Germany and China. The second explores transnational transactions in remembrance, looking at memories of the British Empire at war, contested memories in East-Central Europe and the transnational campaign on behalf of Japan’s former ‘comfort women’. A third section considers local and sectional memories of the war and the fourth analyses innovative practices of memory, including re-enactment, video gaming and Holocaust tourism. Offering insightful contributions on intriguing topics and illuminating the current state of the art in this growing field, this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the history and memory of the Second World War.

British Humour and the Second World War

Author : Juliette Pattinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350199486
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book British Humour and the Second World War written by Juliette Pattinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book skilfully combines cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilization of British humour during the Second World War as well as its legacy in British popular culture. Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb bring together case studies that address a variety of situations in which humour was generated, including wartime jokes, films, radio, cartoons and private drawings, as well as post-war recollections, museum exhibitions and television comedy. By adopting an original interpretative framework of various wartime and post-war sites, this books opens up the possibility for a more variegated, richer analysis of Britain's wartime experience and its place thereafter in the cultural imagination. Through the lens of humour, this book promises to add critical nuance to our understanding of the functioning of British wartime society. Covering sources such as The British Cartoon Archive, BBC World War II People's War Archive and The Ministry of Information, and including analysis of the lasting role of comedy in Britain's memories and depictions of the war, the result is a rich addition to existing literature of use to students and scholars studying the cultural history of war.

8. Mai 1945

Author : Paweł Brudek
Publisher : Neofelis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3958081622
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book 8. Mai 1945 written by Paweł Brudek and published by Neofelis Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was gemeint ist, wenn vom 8. Mai gesprochen wird, ist angesichts der Heterogenität der Daten und Ereignisse sowie ihrer Bezeichnungen und Deutungen keineswegs evident. Paradoxerweise kommt der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht kein eindeutiges Datum zu, und die Orte der Unterzeichnung der Kapitulationserklärung – am 7. Mai in Reims und aus protokollarischen Gründen am 8./9. Mai 1945 in Berlin-Karlshorst wiederholt – spielen im öffentlichen Diskurs nahezu keine Rolle. Eine europäische Verständigung über Datum, Ort und Bedeutung des 8. Mai ist bis heute nicht erfolgt, selbst unter Ausklammerung Deutschlands. Das Kriegsende und die Befreiung von der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft waren geschichtliche Prozesse, die an unterschiedlichen geografischen Orten zu unterschiedlichen Zeitpunkten und in unterschiedlichen Zeiträumen stattfanden. Die vorliegende Publikation zeigt Polyvalenzen, Widersprüche und Konflikte der Erinnerung an den 8. Mai auf, die sich aus einer internationalen, interdisziplinären und diachronen Perspektive ergeben. Prozesse der Auswahl und Konstruktion sowie die Frage danach, wann und warum sie erfolgreich werden, stehen im Fokus der Aufsätze. Sie lassen sich drei Schwerpunkten zuordnen: diskursiven Auseinandersetzungen, medialen Repräsentationen und ritualisierten, individuellen oder politischen Handlungsweisen. Geografisch werden Russland, Deutschland, Kroatien, Großbritannien, Polen, Italien, Frankreich und Israel einbezogen, analysiert werden Literatur, Fotografie, Ausstellungen, Denkmale, Architektur und Bildende Kunst, Diskurse auf nationaler und lokaler Ebene sowie Feierlichkeiten und Gedenkveranstaltungen.

Holocaust Memory and National Museums in Britain

Author : Emily-Jayne Stiles
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030893553
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Memory and National Museums in Britain written by Emily-Jayne Stiles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in Britain. It considers a process of memory-making through an assessment of Holocaust photographs, material culture, and survivor testimonies; exploring theories of cultural memory as they apply to the national museum context. Anchored in time and place, the Holocaust exhibition within Britain’s national museum of war is influenced by, and reflects, an international rise in Holocaust consciousness in the 1990s. This book considers the construction of Holocaust memory in 1990s Britain, providing a foundation for understanding current and future national memory projects. Through all aspects of the display, the Holocaust is presented as meaningful in terms of what it says about Nazism and what this, in turn, says about Britishness. From the original debates surrounding the inclusion of a Holocaust gallery at the IWM, to the acquisition of Holocaust artefacts that could act as 'concrete evidence' of Nazi barbarity and criminality, the Holocaust reaffirms an image of Britain that avoids critical self-reflection despite raising uncomfortably close questions. The various display elements are brought together to consider multiple strands of the Holocaust story as it is told by national museums in Britain.

RecordCovid19

Author : Kristopher Lovell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110731002
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book RecordCovid19 written by Kristopher Lovell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RecordCovid19. Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic provides insights into the experience of the Covid19 pandemic from an historical and sociological perspective. Using the first-hand testimonies submitted as part of the #RecordCovid19 project as its inspiration, the chapters in this edited collection explore and contextualise the initial responses to the Covid19 pandemic. The collection examines people’s relationships with Covid19 as an historical event, including their own experiences of living through history; their relationship with their surroundings, including their relationships with family, the soundscapes and the emotional environments of a pandemic world; the impact and tone of political rhetoric, including the use (and misuse) of wartime myths and language in the United Kingdom; and finally, what lessons can be learnt from how people discuss their own personal stories and what lessons can we draw from previous examples of storytelling in moments of crisis. The result is a fascinating and rich discussion derived from an archive full of idiosyncratic experiences of life changing during the Covid19 pandemic.

War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914

Author : Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429953569
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914 written by Angela K. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores and develops representations of war experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century, through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping cultural memory that have focused on the aftermath of the First World War and the Second World War, particularly through Holocaust studies. These essays, by a range of international and interdisciplinary scholars, broaden the scope considerably, examining the alternate spaces of the First World War and those that followed it through a range of different media, offering an artistic trajectory to the centennial commemorations of 2014-18.

Commemorating War

Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351527649
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Commemorating War written by Graham Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes that have led to this development, among them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood. Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe. Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society.

A World at War, 1911-1949

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393544
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A World at War, 1911-1949 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A World At War, 1911-1949, scholars of the cultural history of warfare, inspired by the work of Professor John Horne, break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the First and Second World Wars.

Remembering War

Author : J. M. Winter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127529
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Remembering War written by J. M. Winter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"-film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.