| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Radical perspectives |
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Radical perspectives.
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| Contents |
Wallace's monument and the resumption of Scotland / Andrew Ross -- The fall and rise of Prague's Marian Column / Cynthia Paces -- Aborted identity : the commission and omission of a monument to the nation -- Sri Lanka, circa 1989 / Kanishka Goonewardena -- "Dancing on the graves of the dead" or, building a World War II memorial in post-Soviet Russia / Anna Krylova -- The politics of memory in the Bonn and Berlin republics / Mary Nolan -- Remembering the war and the atomic bombs : new museums, new approaches / Daniel Seltz -- Touring Harbin's pasts / James Carter -- The palace ruins and putting the Lithuanian nation into place : historical stagings in Vilnius / John Czaplicka -- Memory sites : marked and unmarked -- Holding the Junta accountable : Chile's "sitios de memoria" and the history of torture, disappearance and death / Teresa Meade -- Commemorating the past in post-war El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber -- The politics of remembrance and the consumption of space : Masada in Israeli memory / Yael Zerubavel -- Performative commemorations -- Music, memory and the politics of erasure in Nicaragua / T.M. Scruggs -- Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in post-apartheid South Africa / Bill Nasson |
| Summary |
Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations, with a particular focus on the impact of political transformations on national narratives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Monuments -- Political aspects
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Memorials -- Political aspects
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Public art -- History -- 20th century
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Art and state -- History -- 20th century
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National characteristics.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Art and state
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Monuments -- Political aspects
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National characteristics
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Public art
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Öffentlicher Raum
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Geschichtsbewusstsein
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Denkmal
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Oorlogen.
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Revoluties.
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Monumenten.
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Herdenkingen.
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Politieke aspecten.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walkowitz, Daniel J., editor.
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Knauer, Lisa Maya, 1956- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822386346 |
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0822386348 |
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