Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era

by J. Macleod (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230517400
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/03/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

DONALD BLOXHAM Professor of Modern History, the University of Edinburgh, UK KAREN COX Associate Professor and Director of Public History, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA KEVIN CRAMER Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA PATRICK FINNEY Lecturer in International Politics, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK MADOKA FUTAMURA Visiting Research Fellow, the War Crimes Research Group, King's College London, UK JOHN HORNE Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland JEFFREY KIMBALL Professor Emeritus, Miami University, Ohio, USA CHRISTIAN KOLLER Senior Lecturer in History, Bangor University, UK JENNY MACLEOD Lecturer in Twentieth Century History, the University of Hull, UK M.G.SHEFTALL Associate Professor of Communication Studies, the Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Japan ANATOL SHMELEV Research Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA STEPHEN TYRE Lecturer in History, St Andrews University, UK KARINE VARLEY Lecturer in History, the University of Edinburgh, UK VANDA WILCOX Junior Research Fellow, The Queen's College, the University of Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; J.Macleod Defeat and Memory in Modern History; J.Horne Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth – The German Memory 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 Years' 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 Paradigm of the 'Lost Cause': Defeat in Vietnam, the Stab-in-the Back Legend, and the Construction of a Myth; J.Kimball