Defeat and memory: cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era

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. ÍNDICE: Introduction; J.Macleod - Defeat and Memory in Modern History; J.Horne - Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth b The GermanMemory of the Napoleonic Period in the 19th and Early 20th century; C.Koller - From Heroic Defeat to Mutilated Victory: the Myth of Caporetto in Fascist Italy; V.Wilcox - Taboos of Defeat: Unmentionable Memories of the Franco-Prussian War in France, 1870-1914; K.Varley - Religious War, German War, Total War: The Shadow of the Thirty Yearsb War on German War Making in the Twentieth Century; K.Cramer - The Stories of Defeated Aggressors: International History, National Identity and Collective Memory after 1945; P.Finney - Defeat, Due Process, and Denial: War Crimes Trials and Nationalist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective; D.Bloxham - Memory of War and War Crimes: Japanese Historical Consciousness and the Tokyo Trial; M.Futamura - War Veterans and Kamikaze Memorialization: A Case Study of Defeat Remembrance as Revitalization Movement; M.G.Sheftall - Confederate Defeat and Cultural Expressions of Memory, 1877-1940; K.L.Cox - Gallipoli to Golgotha: Remembering the Internment of the Russian White Army at Gallipoli, 1920-3; A.Shmelev - The Memory of French Military Defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the Defence of French Algeria; S.Tyre - The Enduring Paradigmof the b Lost Causeb : Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth; J.Kimball

• ISBN: 978-0-230-51740-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 14/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés