Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britai

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A study of the rise of the tourism industry around the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of World War I. The responses to the actual and the imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as bereavement and how this was shaped by gender, religion and the military experience.

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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 inter-related, rather than polar opposites. The various responses to the actual and imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as bereavement and how this was shaped by gender, religion and the military experience. Individual memory and experience combined with nationalism and 'imperial' identity as powerful forces informing the pilgrim experience.But this book not only analyzes travel to battlefields, which unsurprisingly paralleled the growth of the modern tourist industry; it also looks closely at the transformation of national war memorials into pilgrimage sites, and shows how responses both to battlefields and memorials, which continue to serve as potent symbols, evolved in the years after the Great War.

Notes

Also available in hardback, 9781859731741 GBP45.00 (September, 1998)

Author Biography

David William Lloyd was formerly of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Tourism and Pilgrimage, 1860-19392. 'Just What 'Ave We Won?' Pilgrimages to the Cenotaph and the Grave of the Unknown Warrior3. 'Murder on Show'? Travel to the Battlefields of the Great War4. 'A Deeper Awareness of the War and its Import': Pilgrimages to the Battlefields of the Great War5. Tourism, Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Australia and Canada, 1919-1939ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Review

This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on the meaning and politics of commemorative processes after the First World War ... Battlefield Tourism is a welcome addition to the important 'Legacy of the Great War' series under the general editorship of Jay Winter. * History *Battlefield Tourism is an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural meanings of the war. * English Historical Review *Lloyd's scholarship is meticulous; he synthesizes information about forms of travel, tourism, and pilgrimage from diverse sources [...] His work deserves to be admired for his careful and thorough style in which he successfully combines war and politics, private and public ceremonies, and the analysis of memory with tourism. His discussion of the war-related pilgrimage is especially useful and provocative. * Annals of Tourism *Lloyd's is a fine book and an excellent addition to our understanding of the aftermath of the Great War. * Canadian *

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Also available in hardback, 9781859731741 GBP45.00 (September, 1998)

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"This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on the meaning and politics of commemorative processes after the First World War ...Battlefield Tourismis a welcome addition to the important 'Legacy of the Great War' series under the general editorship of Jay Winter." --History "Battlefield Tourismis an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural meanings of the war." --English Historical Review "Lloyd's scholarship is meticulous; he synthesizes information about forms of travel, tourism, and pilgrimage from diverse sources." --Annals of Tourism "His work deserves to be admired for his careful and thorough style in which he successfully combines war and politics, private and public ceremonies, and the analysis of memory with tourism. His discussion of the war-related pilgrimage is especially useful and provocative." --Annals of Tourism "Lloyd's is a fine book and an excellent addition to our understanding of the aftermath of the Great War."--Canadian Military History Book Review Supplement "David W. Lloyd's study of pilgrimages to the battlefields, cemetaries, and memorials of the Great War is an ambitious and immensely rewarding project. It is a welcome addition to a growing literature on grief, memory, and commemoration." --The International History Review "In a fine addition to Berg's series 'The Legacy of the Great War', David Lloyd takes another step in the right direction by interpreting the pilgrimage movement as a complex mixture of high and low culture, the sacred and the profane, and tradition and modernism." --Social History

Details ISBN1859731791 Author David William Lloyd Short Title BATTLEFIELD TOURISM Language English ISBN-10 1859731791 ISBN-13 9781859731796 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1998 Imprint Berg Publishers Subtitle Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939 Country of Publication United Kingdom Place of Publication London Residence ENK Pages 192 UK Release Date 1998-09-01 NZ Release Date 1998-09-01 Illustrations illustrations, bibliography, index Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series The Legacy of the Great War Publication Date 1998-09-01 DEWEY 940.465 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-08-31 We've got this

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