Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Aperçus : histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series |
Contents |
Introduction: Anniversary culture and the legacy of Bannockburn / Gill Plain -- Part I. Anniversary culture -- Missing dates and magic numbers : reflections on 1914 / Fran Brearton -- Bruce, Wallace and the diminished present, 1800-1964 / Graeme Morton -- Part II. Making the myths of war and nation -- "Men brave and strong" : Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish martial identity in the late Middle Ages / Michael Brown -- "Not my land's hills" : war and the problem of Scottish homecoming / Caroline McCracken-Flesher -- Medieval battlefields and national narratives, 1830-1918 / Carol Symes -- Bannockburn after Baston / Robert Crawford -- Part III. Making the memory of the First World War -- "The spirit of the crusaders" : Scottish peculiarities, British commonalities and European convergences in the memorialisation of the Great War / Stefan Goebel -- Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond : popular histories of Scotland's martial past / Catriona M.M. Macdonald -- Women, war and internationalism : notes towards a counter-history / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Freedom from judgement above? : predestination and cultural trauma in Scottish Gaelic poetry of World War I / Peter Mackay -- Shades of Bruce : independence and union in First-World War Scottish literature / David Goldie |
Summary |
"Scotland and the First World War : Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland"--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 01/29/2021) |
Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Scotland
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Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Anniversaries, etc
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Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Influence
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Collective memory -- Scotland -- History
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War memorials -- Scotland -- History
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Myth -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- History
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Nationalism -- Scotland -- History
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War and society -- Scotland -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Anniversaries
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Collective memory
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Nationalism
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War and society
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War memorials
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Scotland
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Plain, Gill, editor
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LC no. |
2016046737 |
ISBN |
9781611487770 |
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1611487773 |
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