Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern (Proceedings of the British Academy, #160)

by PJ Rhodes

Polly Low (Editor) and Graham Oliver (Editor)

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This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
  • ISBN10 0197264662
  • ISBN13 9780197264669
  • Publish Date 10 May 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 214
  • Language English