Verfasst von:	Wellington, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Exhibiting war
Titelzusatz:	the Great War, museums, and memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia
Verf.angabe:	Jennifer Wellington, University College Dublin
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2017
Umfang:	xv, 349 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Format:	23 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Fussnoten:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
ISBN:	978-1-107-13507-9
Abstract:	"What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada, and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political, and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture with the past, Australia and Canada came to see it as engendering national birth through violence. Narratives of the war's meaning were deliberately constructed by individuals and groups pursuing specific agendas: to win the war and immortalise it at the same time. Drawing on a range of documentary and visual material, this book analyses how narratives of mass violence changed over time. Emphasising the contingent development of national and imperial war museums, it illuminates the way they acted as spaces in which official, academic, and popular representations of this violent past intersect
	In search of the "authentic" experience of war, 1914-1917 -- Exhibiting for victory: travelling war photography displays, 1917-1920 -- Art exhibitions: a higher truth in aid of victory and for posterity -- Taming the monsters of war: exhibiting weapons and war trophies 1917-1920 -- Consolidations: creating national museums and narratives of war, 1920-1935 -- Museums, monuments, and memory: exhibiting war as part of national and imperial commemorative projects since 1925
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781316471388
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz492811083inh.htm
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316471388
Schlagwörter:	(g)Großbritannien    / (g)Kanada    / (g)Australien    / (s)Erster Weltkrieg <Motiv>    / (s)Ausstellung    / (s)Museum    / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis    / (z)Geschichte 1914-2017
Sprache:	eng
Reproduktion:	ebook version
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Wellington, Jennifer: Exhibiting war. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 349 pages)
RVK-Notation:	NP 4425
	AK 84140
K10plus-PPN:	894751468