Output details
30 - History
University of Kent
Chapter title
Brüchige Kontinuität: Kriegerdenkmäler und Kriegsgedenken im 20. Jahrhundert
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Oldenbourg Verlag
Book title
Gefallenengedenken im globalen Vergleich: Nationale Tradition, politische Legitimation und Individualisierung der Erinnerung
ISBN of book
9783486716276
Year of publication
2013
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This essay analyses the main trends of war commemoration from the Boer War to Afghanistan/Iraq. While focusing on Britain, it explores the method of ‘reflective comparison’ to highlight national peculiarities and European convergences. It argues that even though the symbols (Poppy), rituals (Armistice/Remembrance Day) and narratives (shell-shock) of the First World War continue to have purchase today, the Second World War marked a triple rupture: firstly, a demise of ‘big words’; secondly, the emergence of a new hierarchy of the war dead (with Bomber Command on the margins); thirdly, the creation of a trans-national culture of commemoration (Coventry).
