| Verfasst von: | Strittmatter, David [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Memory, heritage, and preservation in 20th-century England |
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| Verf.angabe: | David Strittmatter |
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| Verlagsort: | Cham, Switzerland |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| E-Jahr: | 2023 |
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| Jahr: | [2023] |
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| Umfang: | xiv, 299 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen, Karten |
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| Format: | 22 cm |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Britain and the World |
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| Fussnoten: | "The Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG" |
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| Weitere Titel: | Angekündigt unter dem Titel: British national identity and memory in the twentieth century: preserving battlefields, political sites, and world's fairgrounds |
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| ISBN: | 978-3-031-04468-7 |
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| ISSN: | 2947-7182 |
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| Abstract: | This book explores commemoration practices and preservation efforts in modern Britain, focusing on the years from the end of the First World War until the mid-1960s. The changes wrought by war led Britain to reconsider major historical episodes that made up its national narrative. Part of this process was a reassessment of heritage sites, because such places carry socio-political meaning as do the memorials that mark them. This book engages the four-way intersection of commemoration, preservation, tourism, and urban planning at some of the most notable historic locations in England. The various actors in this process-from the national government and regional councils to private organizations and interested individuals-did nothing less than engineer British national memory. The author presents case studies of six famous British places, namely battlefields (Hastings and Bosworth), political sites (Runnymede and Peterloo), and world's fairgrounds (the Crystal Palace and Great White City). In all three genres of heritage sites, one location developed through commemorations and tourism, while the other 'anti-sites' simultaneously faltered as they were neither memorialized nor visited by the masses. Ultimately, the book concludes that the modern social and political environment resulted in the revival, creation, or erasure of heritage sites in the service of promoting British national identity. A valuable read for British historians as well as scholars of memory, public history, and cultural studies, the book argues that heritage emerged as a discursive arena in which British identity was renegotiated through times of transitions, both into a democratic age and an era of geopolitical decline |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/4B56696D677C7C39353632393038347C7C434F50.jpg?sq=4 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (g)England / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis / (s)Historische Stätte / (s)Denkmalschutz / (z)Geschichte 1918-1965 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Strittmatter, David: Memory, Heritage, and Preservation in 20th-Century England. - Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023. - 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) |
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| Sach-SW: | British & Irish history |
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| | Cultural studies |
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| | Europäische Geschichte |
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| | Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie |
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| | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain |
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| | HISTORY / Historiography |
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| | HISTORY / Modern / General |
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| | HISTORY / Social History |
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| | Historiography |
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| | History: earliest times to present day |
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| | Kulturwissenschaften |
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| | Museums- und Denkmalkunde |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural |
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| | Social & cultural history |
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| | Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte |
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| Geograph. SW: | United Kingdom, Great Britain |
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| | Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1839066350 |
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Memory, heritage, and preservation in 20th-century England / Strittmatter, David [VerfasserIn]; [2023]
