Flemish Nationalism and the Great War: The Politics of Memory, Visual Culture and Commemoration

✍ Scribed by Karen D. Shelby (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-28
IJzerbedevaart: The Last Summer Pilgrimage to the IJzer....Pages 29-42
A Flemish Nation: Catholicism, Language and the Medieval Past....Pages 43-64
The Battle of the Golden Spurs: Enlistment Propaganda and The Front Movement....Pages 65-82
A Politicized Movement and the Memorialization of the Flemish Soldier....Pages 83-111
The IJzertoren: A Heldenhuldezerk for all of Flanders....Pages 112-142
World War I Memorial or Symbol of Autonomy?: Collaboration and the IJzertoren....Pages 143-174
IJzerbedevaart: The Pilgrimage to the IJzer....Pages 175-207
The IJzerwake: A Different Memory of the Great War....Pages 208-226
Transformation: The IJzertoren Memorial Museum to the Museum aan de IJzer....Pages 227-253
Conclusion....Pages 254-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-320

✦ Subjects

European History; History of World War II and the Holocaust; Cultural History; History of Military; Social History; Modern History

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