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Cultures of Commemoration Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

Name: Cultures of Commemoration By Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)
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Cultures of Commemoration by Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

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SeriesProceedings of the British Academy

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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.

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Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern by Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

Preface ; Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies ; The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings ; Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World ; The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion ; Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe ; Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ; Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials ; Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society

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GOR013346167

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9780197264669

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0197264662

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Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern by Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

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Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

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Proceedings of the British Academy

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Hardback

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Oxford University Press

Year published

2012-05-10

Number of pages

214

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Cultures of Commemoration Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

Cultures of Commemoration by Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

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Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern by Polly Low (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

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