Bibliograph

Exhibiting war, the Great War, museums and memory in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington

Type

Label

Exhibiting war, the Great War, museums and memory in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Exhibiting war

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1005914736

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Wellington

Series statement

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfareCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the Great War, museums and memory in Britain, Canada and Australia

Summary

What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture with the past, Australia and Canada came to see it as engendering national birth through violence. Narratives of the war's meaning were deliberately constructed by individuals and groups pursuing specific agendas: to win the war and immortalise it at the same time. Drawing on a range of documentary and visual material, this book analyses how narratives of mass violence changed over time. Emphasising the contingent development of national and imperial war museums, it illuminates the way they acted as spaces in which official, academic and popular representations of this violent past intersect.--, Provided by publisher

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