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Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia Hardcover - 2017

by Jennifer Wellington


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What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture with the past, Australia and Canada came to see it as engendering national birth through violence. Narratives of the war's meaning were deliberately constructed by individuals and groups pursuing specific agendas: to win the war and immortalise it at the same time. Drawing on a range of documentary and visual material, this book analyses how narratives of mass violence changed over time. Emphasising the contingent development of national and imperial war museums, it illuminates the way they acted as spaces in which official, academic and popular representations of this violent past intersect.

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  • Title Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia
  • Author Jennifer Wellington
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 366
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2017-09-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781107135079 / 1107135079
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.47 x 0.88 in (23.98 x 16.43 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain, World War, 1914-1918 - Canada
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017035933
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.458

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