Defeat and Memory [electronic resource] : Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era /
Macleod, J.editor.
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Defeat and Memory in Modern History; Temporary Defeat; 3 Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth - The German Memory of the Napoleonic Period in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 4 From Heroic Defeat to Mutilated Victory: The Myth of Caporetto in Fascist Italy; Definitive Defeat; 5 The Taboos of Defeat: Unmentionable Memories of the Franco-Prussian War in France, 1870-1914; Total Defeat
6 Religious War, German War, Total War: The Shadow of the Thirty Years' War on German War Making in the Twentieth Century7 The Stories of Defeated Aggressors: International History, National Identity and Collective Memory after 1945; 8 Defeat, Due Process, and Denial: War Crimes Trials and Nationalist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective; 9 Memory of War and War Crimes: Japanese Historical Consciousness and the Tokyo Trial; 10 Japanese War Veterans and Kamikaze Memorialization: A Case Study of Defeat Remembrance as Revitalization Movement; Internal Defeat
11 Confederate Defeat and Cultural Expressions of Memory, 1877-194012 Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920-3; Partial Defeat; 13 The Memory of French Military Defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the Defence of French Algeria; 14 The Enduring Paradigm of the 'Lost Cause': Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the-Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
Military history.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Imperialism.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
History of Military.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
European History.
Modern History.