| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in heritage ; 9 |
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Routledge studies in heritage ; 9.
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| Contents |
Introduction : islands of war, islands of memory / Gilly Carr and Keir Reeves -- Islands, intimate and public memories of the Pacific War in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie -- Fragmented memories : the Dodecanese Islands during WWII / Hazal Papuccular -- From poetic anamnesis to political commemoration : grassroots and institutional memories of the Greek Civil War on an Aegean Island / Elena Mamoulaki -- Islands of war, guardians of memory : the afterlife of the German Occupation in the British Channel Islands / Gilly Carr -- Turncoat heroes or reckless egotists? : the ambivalent memorialization of the "Russian War" on the Dutch Island of Texel / Rob van Ginkel -- : The HMS Royal Oak and the "Ownership of Tragedy" in Orkney / Daniel Travers -- "Tingbaot Wol Wo II Long Pasifik Aelan" : managing memories of WWII heritage in the Pacific / Keir Reeves and Joseph Cheer -- Malta G.C. : war memories and cultural narratives of a Mediterranean island / Sandro Debono -- Scraps of memory : Pacific War tourism on Efate Island (Vanuatu) / Lamont Lindstrom -- The islands of no return : memory, materiality and the Falklands War / Tony Pollard -- The coastwatcher mythos : the politics and poetics of Solomon Islands war memory / Geoffrey White -- The sacred and the profane : souvenir and collecting behaviours on the WWII battlefields of Peleliu Island, Palau, Micronesia / Neil Price, Rick Knecht and Gavin Lindsay -- War remnants of the Greek archipelago : persistent memories or fragile heritage? / Nota Pantzou -- Post war legacies in the island of Kythera : oblivion versus historical memory / Irene Lagani -- Crete : visual memories of war / Maria Kagiadaki -- Remembering war and occupation in post-independence Timor-Leste / Michael Leach |
| Summary |
Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century, and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are well known, far less is understood about how small islands coped. These islands - often not nations in their own right but small outposts of other kingdoms, countries, and nations - have been relegated to mere footnotes in history and heritage studies as interesting case studies or unimportant curiosities. Yet for many of these small islands, war had an enduring impact on their history, memory, intan |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2015) |
| Subject |
War and society -- History -- 20th century
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Collective memory -- History -- 20th century
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Islands.
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islands (landforms)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Collective memory
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Islands
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War and society
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carr, Gillian, editor.
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Reeves, Keir, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317566991 |
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1317566998 |
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9781315736433 |
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1315736438 |
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1138831727 |
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9781138831728 |
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9781317566984 |
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131756698X |
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9781317566977 |
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1317566971 |
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9780815346968 |
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0815346964 |
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