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Never again, gardens of peace : a landscape and architectural history of war cemeteries
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ISBN: 9789462301207 9780300246490 Year: 2019 Publisher: [Place of publication unknown] Mercatorfonds

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Vermist aan het front : archeologisch onderzoek naar vermiste militairen uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog
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ISBN: 9789075230734 Year: 2024 Publisher: Brussel Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed

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Photographing the fallen
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Governing the dead : martyrs, memorials, and necrocitizenship in modern China
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ISBN: 9781501756511 1501756524 1501756508 1501756516 9781501756528 9781501756504 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press,

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In 'Governing the Dead', Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist regime consolidated control by honoring its millions of war dead, allowing China to emerge rapidly from the wreckage of the first half of the twentieth century to become a powerful state, supported by strong nationalistic sentiment and institutional infrastructure. The fall of the empire, internecine conflicts, foreign invasion, and war-related disasters claimed twenty to thirty million Chinese lives. Vu draws on government records, newspapers, and petition letters from mourning families to analyze how the Nationalist regime's commemoration of the dead and compensation of the bereaved actually fortified its central authority. By enshrining the victims of violence as national ancestors, the Republic of China connected citizenship to the idea of the nation, promoting loyalty to the 'imagined community.'

Return to Gallipoli : walking the battlefields of the Great War
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ISBN: 9780511481338 9780521681513 9780511338441 0511338449 9780511252433 0511252439 0511481330 0521681510 0521833841 9780521833844 1139131915 9781139131919 1107158095 1281113026 9786611113025 0511337884 0511336705 0511337353 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Every year tens of thousands of Australians make their pilgrimages to Gallipoli, France and other killing fields of the Great War. It is a journey steeped in history. Some go in search of family memory, seeking the grave of a soldier lost a lifetime ago. For others, Anzac pilgrimage has become a rite of passage, a statement of what it means to be Australian. This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage. It examines the significance these 'sacred sites' have acquired in the hearts and minds of successive generations and charts the complex responses of young and old, soldier and civilian, the pilgrims of the 1920s and today's backpacker travellers. This book gives voice to history, retrieving a bitter-sweet testimony through interviews, surveys and a rich archival record. Innovative, courageous and often deeply moving, it explains why the Anzac legend still captivates Australians.

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