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Title Cultures of commemoration : war memorials, ancient and modern / edited by Polly Low, Graham Oliver and P.J. Rhodes.
Publication Info Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.


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Descript xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Contents Contents: Preface / P. J. Rhodes ; Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies / Polly Low and Graham Oliver ; The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings / Polly Low ; Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World / Alison Cooley ; The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion / Angelos Chaniotis ; Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos ; Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Graham Oliver ; Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials / Stefan Goebel ; Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society / Lawrence A. Tritle.
Note 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.
ISBN 0197264662 (hbk.) :
9780197264669 (hbk.) :
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Series Proceedings of the British Academy, 160
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.
Subject War memorials -- History.
War memorials.
Alt author Low, Polly, editor.
Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966- editor.
Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John), editor.
British Academy, issuing body.
Descript xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Contents Contents: Preface / P. J. Rhodes ; Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies / Polly Low and Graham Oliver ; The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings / Polly Low ; Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World / Alison Cooley ; The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion / Angelos Chaniotis ; Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos ; Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Graham Oliver ; Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials / Stefan Goebel ; Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society / Lawrence A. Tritle.
Note 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.
ISBN 0197264662 (hbk.) :
9780197264669 (hbk.) :
Series Proceedings of the British Academy, 160
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.
Subject War memorials -- History.
War memorials.
Alt author Low, Polly, editor.
Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966- editor.
Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John), editor.
British Academy, issuing body.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  NA 9325 C9  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject War memorials -- History.
War memorials.
Descript xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Contents Contents: Preface / P. J. Rhodes ; Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies / Polly Low and Graham Oliver ; The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings / Polly Low ; Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World / Alison Cooley ; The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion / Angelos Chaniotis ; Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos ; Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Graham Oliver ; Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials / Stefan Goebel ; Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society / Lawrence A. Tritle.
Note 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.
Alt author Low, Polly, editor.
Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966- editor.
Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John), editor.
British Academy, issuing body.
ISBN 0197264662 (hbk.) :
9780197264669 (hbk.) :
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