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Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern - Proceedings of the British Academy
Rhodes, P.J. (Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham; Fellow of the British Academy)
Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern - Proceedings of the British Academy
Rhodes, P.J. (Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham; Fellow of the British Academy)
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.
200 pages, 26 black and white illustrations
Media | Books Map (Land or nautical charts) |
Released | May 10, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780197264669 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 214 |
Dimensions | 165 × 243 × 18 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Low, Polly (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester) |
Editor | Oliver, Graham (Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture, University of Liverpool) |