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The heritage of war / edited by Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino.

Contributor(s): Gegner, Martin | Ziino, Bart, 1975-Material type: TextTextSeries: Key issues in cultural heritagePublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012. Description: xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415593281 (hardback : alk. paper); 041559328X (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415593298 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415593298 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780203809204 (ebook); 0203809203 (ebook)Subject(s): War and society -- Case studies | Memorialization -- Political aspects -- Case studies | Memorialization -- Social aspects -- Case studies | Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Case studies | Collective memory -- Social aspects -- Case studiesDDC classification: 303.6/609 LOC classification: HM554 | .H48 2012
Contents:
Introduction : the heritage of war : agency, contingency, identity / Martin Gegner and Bart Zino -- Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma Railway / Joan Beaumont -- Victory and defeat at Dien Biên Phu : memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France / William Logan and Nguyen Thanh Binh -- War monuments in East and West Berlin : Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial? / Martin Gegner -- "Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks" : an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa? / Judith A. Bennett -- Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields / Robert K. Sutton -- Our ancestors the Incas : Andean warring over the conquering pasts / O Hugo Benavides -- We are talking about Gallipoli after all : contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula / Bart Zino -- Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali / Stephanie L. McKinney -- Remembering and forgetting : South Asia and the Second World War / Yasmin Khan -- Reconstruction over ruins : rebuilding Dresden's Frauenkirche / Tony Joel -- Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions : the case of Mitrovica, Kosovo / Frank Schwartze -- Reconstruction as exclusion : Beirut / Esther Charlesworth and Anitra Nelson.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
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Shelf 66 - Reading Room 		G2f GEGNE 30720 Not for loan BOOKS-000000023622

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the heritage of war : agency, contingency, identity / Martin Gegner and Bart Zino -- Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma Railway / Joan Beaumont -- Victory and defeat at Dien Biên Phu : memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France / William Logan and Nguyen Thanh Binh -- War monuments in East and West Berlin : Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial? / Martin Gegner -- "Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks" : an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa? / Judith A. Bennett -- Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields / Robert K. Sutton -- Our ancestors the Incas : Andean warring over the conquering pasts / O Hugo Benavides -- We are talking about Gallipoli after all : contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula / Bart Zino -- Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali / Stephanie L. McKinney -- Remembering and forgetting : South Asia and the Second World War / Yasmin Khan -- Reconstruction over ruins : rebuilding Dresden's Frauenkirche / Tony Joel -- Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions : the case of Mitrovica, Kosovo / Frank Schwartze -- Reconstruction as exclusion : Beirut / Esther Charlesworth and Anitra Nelson.