Reflections on the Commemoration of the First World War: Perspectives from the Former British Empire

ISBN-13: 9780367643041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 168 str.

Monger, David

Opis

Historians and heritage professionals assess the First World War’s centenary in parts of the former British empire. Did commemoration become celebration? Did the centenary serve social and political functions, create new knowledge, recover marginalised voices, confirm existing clichés? Can its lessons inform future commemorative events?

Spis treści

Introduction: Assessing the Centenary of the First World War;  Part I: Commemoration and the Centenary in Perspective;  1. Colonial Commemoration in a Time of Multiculturalism: South Asia and the First World War;  2. Resurrecting Heroes … or Reinventing Them? Interpretations of the Heroic in Australian First World War Centenary Commemorations;  3. The First Time he Felt Truly Australian: Anzac Sport and Australian Nationalism, 1995 – Today;  4: ‘Our War’: National Memory, New Zealand and Te Papa’s Gallipoli;  Part II: The Centenary in Practice;  5. Voicing War: Canadian Soldiers’ Oral Culture during and after the First World War;  6. New Zealand’s War in the Air: A Centenary Exhibition in Review;  7. Uncovering the Hidden Stories of the Voices Against War in a New Zealand Province;  8. Reclaiming Salute to Valour: The Official Canadian Film of the Pilgrimage to the Vimy Monument