The Age of Anniversaries

The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-8879-4 (ISBN)

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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 the end of the long nineteenth century, so much so that a ‘cult of the centenary’ had become established throughout the wider Western world around 1900. At one level, such events were ephemeral affairs. And yet many left a lasting legacy. Above all, as part of the contemporary processes of the ‘invention of traditions’ and the conscious national ‘self-historicization’ of the established nation-states, they offer crucial insights into the social, cultural and political dynamics of the period.

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

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)

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4724-8879-2 / 1472488792
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-8879-4 / 9781472488794
Zustand	Neuware