Battlefield Tourism : Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939.

In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory...

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Author / Creator: Lloyd, David William.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1998.
Series:The Legacy of the Great War Ser.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Tourism and Pilgrimage, 1860-1939 -- 2 'Just What 'Ave We Won?' Pilgrimages to the Cenotaph and the Grave of the Unknown Warrior -- 3 'Murder on Show'? Travel to the Battlefields of the Great War -- 4 'A Deeper Awareness of the War and its Import': Pilgrimages to the Battlefields of the Great War -- 5 Tourism, Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Australia and Canada, 1919-1939 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Footnotes -- intro -- ch01 -- ch02 -- ch03 -- ch04 -- ch05 -- conclusion -- Imprint Page. 
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