Memory and mythology
Subtitle: modern war and the construction of historical memory, 1775-2000
By: Natalia Starostina, editor
Publisher: Academica Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bethesda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781936320677
Subjects: War and society; Collective memory; Social aspects; War; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the sorrow of wars and the persistence of memory / Natalia Starostina; title: In the hands of god : religious revivals and the struggle for manhood in confederate camps / J.M. Mize; title: A thousand kisses from the front : the distorted memory of Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil War / Richard Mannion; title: Collective remembrance : the Napoleonic War of 1812 in Russian society's historical memory in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries / Tatiana Saburova; title: Symbolism and the memory of Vietnam : the War Powers Resolution of 1973 / Michael Huddleson; title: Language of memory : symbols and metaphors in German holocaust memorials / Pnina Rosenberg; title: Indian spies in Appalachia during the American Revolutionary War / Charles H. "Trey" Wilson III; title: The defining narrative : how Ernst Haeckel's interpretation of war redefined German superiority during the First World War / Lauren Neal; title: Woman warrior : the trials and triumphs of Russian combatant Maria Bochkareva / Megan Gribble; title: A tale of modern martyrdom : the life and example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Adam Neal; title: On the problems of memory and nostalgia in the historiography of modern Europe / Natalia Starostina; title: Ottoman prisoners of war in Kharkiv Region and Valki Incident / Mehmet Fahri Furat; title: Memories of a French girl in German occupied France : bedtime war stories / Mark Brunner.