The Age of Anniversaries: The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925

ISBN-13: 9780367348731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

T. G. Otte

Opis

For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present.

Spis treści

1 Centenaries, Self-Historicization and the Mobilization of the Masses, T.G. Otte (UEA)  2 America and the King Alfred Millenary Commemorations, Erik Goldstein (Boston)  3 An Entente Centenary: Commemorating Trafalgar without wounding "the susceptibilities of France", Andrew Lambert (KCL)  4 "Offensive to national sentiment"?: The Bicentenary of the Union of 1707, Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh)  5 The Limits of Nationalist Imagination in the Poltava and Bessarabia Ceremonials in the Russian Empire, George Gilbert (Southampton)  6 Peace and War: Anglo-American Centenary Projects and the Lincoln Statue Controversy, 1910-1927, Geoff Hicks (UEA)  7 Commemorating Jan Hus, Creating a Czechoslovak State: The 1915 Quincentenary, Cynthia Paces (New Jersey)  8 The Cult of the Fallen Soldier in France during the Great War: Between Tradition and Modernity, Christina Theodosiou (Paris)  9 Political Centenary Commemorations in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, Roland Quinault (London)  10 Commemoration through Dramatic Performance: Historical Pageants and the Age of Anniversaries, 1905-1920, Angela Bartie (Edinburgh), Linda Fleming (Glasgow), Mark Freeman (UCL), Tom Hulme (KCL) and Paul Readman (KCL)

O autorze

T. G. Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia, UK.