Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration : Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand Paperback / softback

Edited by Shanti Sumartojo, Ben Wellings

Part of the Cultural Memories series

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Description

The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness.

With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only â€˜the centenary to end all centenariesâ€™ but the first truly global period of remembrance. In this innovative volume, the authors examine First World War commemoration in an international, multidisciplinary and comparative context.

The contributions draw on history, politics, geography, cultural studies and sociology to interrogate the continuities and tensions that have shaped national commemoration and the social and political forces that condition this unique international event.

New studies of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific address the relationship between increasingly fractured grand narratives of history and the renewed role of the state in mediating between individual and collective memories.

Released to coincide with the beginning of the 2014â€“2018 centenary period, this collection illuminates the fluid and often contested relationships amongst nation, history and memory in Great War commemoration.