Exhibiting War

Exhibiting War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9781107135079
ISBN-13 : 1107135079
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Exhibiting War by : Jennifer Wellington

Download or read book Exhibiting War written by Jennifer Wellington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.

Does War Belong in Museums?

Does War Belong in Museums?
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Publisher : transcript Verlag
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9783839423066
ISBN-13 : 3839423066
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Does War Belong in Museums? by : Wolfgang Muchitsch

Download or read book Does War Belong in Museums? written by Wolfgang Muchitsch and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate - and what images would be desirable?

The Suicide Exhibition

The Suicide Exhibition
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781448177042
ISBN-13 : 1448177049
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Suicide Exhibition by : Justin Richards

Download or read book The Suicide Exhibition written by Justin Richards and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WEWELSBURG CASTLE, 1940. The German war machine has woken an ancient threat – the alien Vril and their Ubermensch have returned. Ultimate Victory in the war for Europe is now within the Nazis’ grasp. ENGLAND, 1941 Foreign Office trouble shooter Guy Pentecross has stumbled into a conspiracy beyond his imagining – a secret war being waged in the shadows against a terrible enemy. The battle for Europe has just become the war for humanity. This is The Thirty-Nine Steps crossed with Indiana Jones and Quatermass. Justin Richards has an extremely credible grasp of the period’s history and has transformed it into a groundbreaking alternate reality thriller.

The Twenty Year War

The Twenty Year War
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Publisher : Ballast Books
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 1733428097
ISBN-13 : 9781733428095
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Twenty Year War by : Dan Blakeley

Download or read book The Twenty Year War written by Dan Blakeley and published by Ballast Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enemy on Display

The Enemy on Display
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781782382188
ISBN-13 : 1782382186
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Enemy on Display by : Zuzanna Bogumił

Download or read book The Enemy on Display written by Zuzanna Bogumił and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780253003317
ISBN-13 : 0253003318
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The American War in Contemporary Vietnam by : Christina Schwenkel

Download or read book The American War in Contemporary Vietnam written by Christina Schwenkel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.

Views of Violence

Views of Violence
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781789201277
ISBN-13 : 1789201276
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Views of Violence by : Jörg Echternkamp

Download or read book Views of Violence written by Jörg Echternkamp and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.