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.

Author: Winter, Jay
Publisher: Yale University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the 20th Century
Pages: 00340 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2006-05-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780300110685
Category: History : General