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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450027003321

Autore

Lloyd David Wharton

Titolo

Battlefield tourism [[electronic resource] ] : pilgrimage and the commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia, and Canada, 1919-1939 / / by David W. Lloyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Berg, 1998

ISBN

1-4725-7808-2

1-84520-739-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

The legacy of the Great War

Disciplina

940.3

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Battlefields

World War, 1914-1918 - Veterans - Travel

World War, 1914-1918 - Influence

Battlefields

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Tourism and Pilgrimage, 1860-1939; 2 'Just What 'Ave We Won?' Pilgrimages to the Cenotaph and the Grave of the Unknown Warrior; 3 'Murder on Show'? Travel to the Battlefields of the Great War; 4 'A Deeper Awareness of the War and its Import': Pilgrimages to the Battlefields of the Great War; 5 Tourism, Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Australia and Canada, 1919-1939; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; intro; ch01; ch02; ch03; ch04; ch05

conclusionImprint Page

Sommario/riassunto

In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada. The author demonstrates that high and low culture, tradition and modernism, the sacred and the profane were often inter-related, rather



than polar opposites. The various responses to the actual and imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as be