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The Age of Anniversaries: The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925 book cover

1st Edition

The Age of Anniversaries The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925

Edited By T. G. Otte Copyright 2018
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical events and people in collective memory. They were fairly infrequent before 1850 but increased in size and numbers by... Read more

1 Centenaries, Self-Historicization and the Mobilization of the Masses

T.G. Otte (UEA)

2 America and the King Alfred Millenary Commemorations

Erik Goldstein (Boston)

3 An Entente Centenary: Commemorating Trafalgar without wounding "the susceptibilities of France"

Andrew Lambert (KCL)

4 "Offensive to national sentiment"?: The Bicentenary of the Union of 1707

Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh)

5 The Limits of Nationalist Imagination in the Poltava and Bessarabia Ceremonials in the Russian Empire

George Gilbert (Southampton)

6 Peace and War: Anglo-American Centenary Projects and the Lincoln Statue Controversy, 1910-1927

Geoff Hicks (UEA)

7 Commemorating Jan Hus, Creating a Czechoslovak State: The 1915 Quincentenary

Cynthia Paces (New Jersey)

8 The Cult of the Fallen Soldier in France during the Great War: Between Tradition and Modernity

Christina Theodosiou (Paris)

9 Political Centenary Commemorations in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Roland Quinault (London)

10 Commemoration through Dramatic Performance: Historical Pageants and the Age of Anniversaries, 1905-1920

Angela Bartie (Edinburgh), Linda Fleming (Glasgow), Mark Freeman (UCL), Tom Hulme (KCL) and Paul Readman (KCL)

Biography

T. G. Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia, UK.

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