| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Aperçus : histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series
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| Summary |
"Scotland and the First World War : Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland"--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Anniversary culture and the legacy of Bannockburn / Gill Plain -- Part I. Anniversary culture -- Missing dates and magic numbers : reflections on 1914 / Fran Brearton -- Bruce, Wallace and the diminished present, 1800-1964 / Graeme Morton -- Part II. Making the myths of war and nation -- "Men brave and strong" : Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance and Scottish martial identity in the late Middle Ages / Michael Brown -- "Not my land's hills" : war and the problem of Scottish homecoming / Caroline McCracken-Flesher -- Medieval battlefields and national narratives, 1830-1918 / Carol Symes -- Bannockburn after Baston / Robert Crawford -- Part III. Making the memory of the First World War -- "The spirit of the crusaders" : Scottish peculiarities, British commonalities and European convergences in the memorialisation of the Great War / Stefan Goebel -- Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond : popular histories of Scotland's martial past / Catriona M.M. Macdonald -- Women, war and internationalism : notes towards a counter-history / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Freedom from judgement above? : predestination and cultural trauma in Scottish Gaelic poetry of World War I / Peter Mackay -- Shades of Bruce : independence and union in First-World War Scottish literature / David Goldie. |
| Local Note |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Scotland.
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Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Anniversaries, etc.
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Battle of Bannockburn (Scotland : 1314) |
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Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314 -- Influence.
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Collective memory -- Scotland -- History.
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Collective memory. |
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Scotland. |
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History. |
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War memorials -- Scotland -- History.
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Myth -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- History.
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War memorials. |
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Myth. |
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Nationalism -- Scotland -- History.
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Social aspects. |
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War and society -- Scotland -- History.
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War and society. |
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Nationalism. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Anniversaries. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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World War (1914-1918) |
| Chronological Term |
1314-1918 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Plain, Gill, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scotland and the First World War. Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] 9781611487763 (DLC) 2016028994 |
| ISBN |
9781611487770 (electronic) |
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1611487773 |
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9781611487763 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781611487787 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1611487765 |
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