Cultures of Commemoration

War Memorials, Ancient and Modern

PJ Rhodes author Graham Oliver editor Polly Low editor

Format:Fold-out book or chart

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:10th May '12

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Cultures of Commemoration cover

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.

ISBN: 9780197264669

Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 20mm

Weight: 562g

214 pages