Cultures of Commemoration

Cultures of Commemoration
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Publisher : OUP/British Academy
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ISBN-10 : 0197264662
ISBN-13 : 9780197264669
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Book Synopsis Cultures of Commemoration by : P.J. Rhodes

Download or read book Cultures of Commemoration written by P.J. Rhodes and published by OUP/British Academy. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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