Otte The Age of Anniversaries

The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-70236-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Otte, T. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Cult of the Centenary, National Self-Historicisation and the Mobilisation of the Masses: Some Reflections (T.G. Otte) 2. The King Alfred Millenary Commemoration (Erik Goldstein) 3. An Entente Centenary. Commemorating Trafalgar without wounding ‘the susceptibilities of France’ (Andrew Lambert) 4. Commemorating two centuries of Anglo-Scottish Union (Ewen Cameron) 5. The limits of nationalist imagination in the Poltava and Bessarabia ceremonials in Russia (George Gilbert) 6. The Perils of Commemoration: Mr Lincoln and Anglo-American Peace, 1914-1920 (Geoff Hicks) 7. Commemorating Jan Hus, Creating a Czechoslovak State: The 1915 Quincentenary (Cynthia Paces) 8. The Cult of the Fallen Soldier in France during the Great War: between tradition and modernity (Christina Theodosiou) 9. Political centenary commemorations in the early twentieth century (Roland Quinault) 10. Commemoration through Dramatic Performance: Historical Pageants and the Age of Anniversaries, 1905-1920 (Paul Readman with Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman and Tom Hulme)

Über Autor(innen)

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