Cultures of Commemoration
War Memorials, Ancient and Modern

9780197264669, OUP Oxford

Fold-out book or chart, published 10 May 2012

214 pages, 26 black and white illustrations
24.1 x 16.4 x 2 cm, 0.562 kg

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.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]