Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern

P.J. Rhodes (Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham; Fellow of the British Academy)

Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 May 2012
Pages
214
ISBN
9780197264669

Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern

P.J. Rhodes (Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham; Fellow of the British Academy)

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

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