Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 1) - Hardcover

Winter, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521496829 ISBN 13: 9780521496827

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Jay Winter's powerful and substantial new study of the "collective remembrance" of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a wide variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr. Winter looks anew at the ways, many of them highly traditional, in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after the carnage of the First World War. The result is a profound and moving book, of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Book Description:

Jay Winter's powerful and substantial new study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a great variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr Winter looks anew at the ways, many of them highly traditional, in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. The result is a profound and moving book, of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

About the Author:

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, Connecticut. He came to Yale from the University of Cambridge, where he took his doctorate and where he taught history from 1979 to 2001 and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995); Remembering War (2006) and Dreams of Peace and Freedom (2006). In 1997, he received an Emmy award for the best documentary series of the year as co-producer and co-writer of 'The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century', an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS and the BBC, and shown subsequently in 28 countries. He is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War, in Peronne, Somme, France. His biography of Rene Cassin, written with Antoine Prost and published in French in 2011, was published in an English edition by Cambridge University Press in 2013.

About the Author:
J.M. Winter is University Lecturer in History and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. An American by birth, he has given numerous guest lectures throughout Europe and the United States. His previous books include the widely praised volume The Great War and the British People.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521496829
• ISBN 13: 9780521496827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320