The main authors of this study were initially interested in writing the text because they believed that historians of British reform movements had devoted insufficient attention to monuments. They regarded this as a weakness in the writing of modern British history. Series Editor(s): Chase, Dr. Malcolm. Series: Studies in Labour History. Num Pages: 192 pages, Includes 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; AMGD; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 433. . 2004. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Studies in Labour History)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0754632296
ISBN 13: 9780754632290
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols in public discourse, political monuments have received little attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender and power relations that determine what is remembered (or forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the relations that went into the making of public memory in modern Britain and its radical tradition.

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