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001 2014050256
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008 150410s2015 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014050256
020 $a9781107074576 (hardback : alkaline paper)
020 $a9781107426467 (paperback : alkaline paper)
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050 00 $aD838.E85$bE38 2015
082 00 $a940.54/654$223
100 1 $aEdwards, Sam,$d1981-
245 10 $aAllies in memory :$bWorld War II and the politics of transatlantic commemoration in Europe, c. 1941-2001 /$cSam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University).
264 1 $aCambridge, UK :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $axii, 299 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aStudies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ;$v41
520 2 $a"Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who had fought and fallen for freedom. Some of these monuments, plaques, stained-glass windows and other commemorative signposts were established by agents of the US government, partly in the service of transatlantic diplomacy; some were built by American veterans' groups mourning lost comrades; and some were provided by grateful and grieving European communities. As the war receded, Europe also became the site for other forms of American commemoration: from the sombre and solemn battlefield pilgrimages of veterans, to the political theatre of Presidents, to the production and consumption of commemorative souvenirs. With a specific focus on processes and practices in two distinct regions of Europe--Normandy and East Anglia--Sam Edwards tells a story of postwar Euro-American cultural contact, and of the acts of transatlantic commemoration that this bequeathed"--From publisher's website.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 266-291) and index.
505 0 $aPhase one. Remembrance and reconstruction, c. 1941-1969 -- Old World and New World : interwar transatlantic commemoration, c. 1917-41 -- "Here we are together" : air war and the Anglicization of American memory, c. 1941-1963 -- "These memories shall not be forgotten" : D-Day and transatlantic memory, c. 1944-1969 -- Phase two. Americanization and commercialization, c. 1964-2001 -- "It looks so different now" : veterans' memory, c. 1964-1984 -- "The last good war" : Vietnam, victory culture, and the Americanization of memory, c. 1964-1984 -- "One last look" : the commercialisation of memory, c. 1984-2001.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMonuments$zEurope.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMonuments$zEngland$zEast Anglia.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMonuments$zFrance$zNormandy.
650 0 $aWar memorials$zEurope.
650 0 $aMemorialization$zEurope.
650 0 $aMemory$xPolitical aspects$zEurope.
650 0 $aMemory$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations$zEurope.
651 0 $aEurope$xRelations$zUnited States.