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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"war memorials"”.
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Traditional war memorials and postmodern memory
War and how it is remembered are still timely and significant subjects for many Canadians as witnessed by the recent ceremony to mark the reburial of Canada's Unknown Soldier in the newly completed tomb at the base of the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Although literature on Canadian war …
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Memorial Craze: How War Memorials have been Changed by War
<p>This thesis project argues that memorials constructed after 9/11 were designed specifically in a way that privileged and focused on the dead individually. By taking a look at memorials throughout American history, the study of memorialization sets up the stage for the way the lives of ordinary …
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South African public memorials of World War One. A historical view of processes in public memorialisation through symbolic content, with particular reference to Cape Town
… to unravel the sentiments which are embodied in war memorials by examining the conditions and events of the war as a way into understanding the motivations of the survivors, who brought them into being. The memorials in Cape Town do not exist in isolation, and therefore it was expedient to refer …
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A Constructivist Model for Public War Memorial Design that Facilitates Dynamic Meaning Making
Many war memorials today face loss of relevant meaning to the members of their community over time, an inability to adapt to evolving historical perspectives, and a lack of ability to engage visitors in a deep and authentic way of creating meaning and understanding. New war memorials should provide …
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Creating Virginia’s War Memorial Carillon in the Shadow of the Civil War
… thesis explores the creation of the Virginia’s War Memorial Carillon in relation to the persistent significance of the Civil War in Virginia. By focusing on the debates about Virginia’s War Memorial Library, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Carillon, this thesis reconstructs the sentiments and …
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Localizing memory scapes, building a nation: Commemorating the second world war in Singapore
… remembers its involvement in the Second World War, and the politics of space associated with the production and consumption of a??locala?? war memoryscapes. Specifically, the thesis deals with three issues. First, it explores how the state has tried to mobilize its memories of the war a?? no …
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A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914
… in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they …
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Warship : memorial in antithesis
… and reflections on some of New York City's many war memorials, ranging from one commemorating the Revolutionary War to one dedicated this past year for the Korean War. What becomes evident within the wide range of memorials, is the degree to which they can be used to gauge the political sentiment …
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Consequential ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic culture 1793-1877
… bicentenary of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars what memorials of the wars have we inherited? And who bequeathed that inheritance to posterity? From the Victorian monuments that remain, it would seem that the heritage of war was coherently patriotic and evidence of a pro-war, pro-victory …
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God, Grief and Community:Commemoration of the Great War in Huddersfield, c. 1914-1929
… of Yorkshire, during and after the First World War. It examines the creation of war memorials at all levels, from the borough-wide official scheme, through those relating to smaller geographical areas within it, and down to individual voluntary associations. The source material underpinning the …
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The role of the state in re/constructing the 1973 war discourse in Egypt
… questioning the country’s victory in the 1973 War and its implications can lead to media blackout, public outrage, imprisonment and even exile. Public representations of this alleged victory continue to be thus regulated in spite of 40 years of socio-political change, and in the face of a mass …
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“Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out”: The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019
… Indigenous Australian and Māori First World War service has been acknowledged in national sites of commemoration in Australia and New Zealand over the past century. Between 1918 and 2019, the national commemorative landscapes in Australia and New Zealand evolved to accommodate changing …
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The global war on terror memorial and the rhetoric of commemoration.
… to construct a national memorial for the Global War on Terror. It looks at three distinct areas of discourse relating to the project: the congressional debates over the memorial, the principles the memorial foundations declared that they hoped the final project would represent and arguments …
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Commercially produced forms of American Civil War monuments
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