The heritage of war

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The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them.From colonizing violence in South America to the Un…

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Full title :The heritage of war / edited by Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203809204, 0203809203, 9781136673832, 1136673830, 9781136673788, 1136673784, 9781136673825, 1136673822
DOI:10.4324/9780203809204
oclc:ocn785925615
LC Classification:HM554
Dewey Decimal:303.6/609

Introduction : the heritage of war : agency, contingency, identity / Martin Gegner and Bart Zino -- Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma Railway / Joan Beaumont -- Victory and defeat at Dien Biên Phu : memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France / William Logan and Nguyen Thanh Binh -- War monuments in East and West Berlin : Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial? / Martin Gegner -- "Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks" : an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa? / Judith A. Bennett -- Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields / Robert K. Sutton -- Our ancestors the Incas : Andean warring over the conquering pasts / O Hugo Benavides -- We are talking about Gallipoli after all : contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula / Bart Zino -- Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali / Stephanie L. McKinney -- Remembering and forgetting : South Asia and the Second World War / Yasmin Khan -- Reconstruction over ruins : rebuilding Dresden's Frauenkirche / Tony Joel -- Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions : the case of Mitrovica, Kosovo / Frank Schwartze -- Reconstruction as exclu…

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Case studies Collective memory -- Case studies. -- P… Collective memory -- Case studies. -- S… Commémorations -- Études de cas. -- Asp… Commémorations -- Études de cas. -- Asp… Electronic books Guerre et société -- Études de cas Mémoire collective -- Études de cas. --… Mémoire collective -- Études de cas. --… Memorialization -- Case studies. -- Pol… Memorialization -- Case studies. -- Soc… Political Science -- Peace War and society War and society -- Case studies