Exhibiting War
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 29 September 2017
- 21 September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781316471388
- 9781107135079
- 9781316501023
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.72kg, 366 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.45kg, 366 Pages
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Book description
What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture with the past, Australia and Canada came to see it as engendering national birth through violence. Narratives of the war's meaning were deliberately constructed by individuals and groups pursuing specific agendas: to win the war and immortalise it at the same time. Drawing on a range of documentary and visual material, this book analyses how narratives of mass violence changed over time. Emphasising the contingent development of national and imperial war museums, it illuminates the way they acted as spaces in which official, academic and popular representations of this violent past intersect.
Reviews
'Exhibiting War is an exhaustively researched and highly persuasive work. It synthesises a vast field of scholarship and successfully examines a formidable body of archives located in three different countries. The prose is engaging, the analysis sharp and … its content fresh and original.'
Bruce Scates Source: Australian Historical Studies
'Packed with valuable insights and analyses, Wellington’s study provides a lively, engaging and persuasive addition to the literature on the way the First World War was experienced, interpreted and understood.'
Mark Connelly Source: The English Historical Review
'As a richly contextualised account of the origins of three major war museums of the British and Dominion experience, Exhibiting War captures the continuities and deeper cultural currents that animated the more familiar institutional story in each case.'
Geoffrey A.C. Ginn Source: Australian Journal of Politics and History
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