Solving the Nation's Ills Through War: Italy, the Great War, and Nation Building

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-243
Author(s):  
Ernest Ialongo
Author(s):  
Alison Bedford ◽  
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Richard Gehrmann ◽  
Martin Kerby ◽  
Margaret Baguley ◽  
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Australian war memorials have changed over time to reflect community sentiments and altered expectations for how a memorial should look and what it should commemorate. The monolith or cenotaph popular after the Great War has given way to other forms of contemporary memorialisation including civic, counter or anti-memorials or monuments. Contemporary memorials and monuments now also attempt to capture the voices of marginalised groups affected by trauma or conflict. In contrast, Great War memorials were often exclusionary, sexist and driven by a nation building agenda. Both the visibility and contestability of how a country such as Australia pursues public commemoration offers rich insights into the increasingly widespread efforts to construct an inclusive identity which moves beyond the cult of the warrior and the positioning of war as central to the life of the nation.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Winter ◽  
Antoine Prost
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1917 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 397-397
Author(s):  
Charles A. Ellwood
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1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-176
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Scardino Belzer
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2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Downing

This article considers the making of the BBC2 series, The Great War, and examines issues around the treatment and presentation of the First World War on television, the reception of the series in 1964 and its impact on the making of television history over the last fifty years. The Great War combined archive film with interviews from front-line soldiers, nurses and war workers, giving a totally new feel to the depiction of history on television. Many aspects of The Great War were controversial and raised intense debate at the time and have continued to do so ever since.


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