Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939

by David W. Lloyd

Book Overview

In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada. The author demonstrates that high and low culture, tradition and modernism, the sacred and the profane were often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859731791
• ISBN13: 9781859731796
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"