Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern

ISBN-13: 9780197264669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str.

P. J. Rhodes;Polly Low;Graham Oliver

Opis

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.