Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern (Proceedings of the British Academy)
Book Details
Author(s)
Low, Polly
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN / ASIN
0197264662
ISBN-13
9780197264669
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,735,269
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
