
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
The War France Won and Forgot
Sima Godfrey(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 15. September 2023
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-1-4875-4777-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Crimean War (1854-56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches - precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity.
Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.
Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
30 colour illustrations, 38 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-4777-6 (9781487547776)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sima Godfrey is an associate professor emerita of French at the University of British Columbia.
Content
1. Introduction
2. A la Recherche de la guerre gagnee: Crimea, the Invisible War
3. Spectacles of War
4. Crimea: The Visible War
5. A la Recherche de la guerre oubliee: Crimea, the Forgotten War
Bibliography
2. A la Recherche de la guerre gagnee: Crimea, the Invisible War
3. Spectacles of War
4. Crimea: The Visible War
5. A la Recherche de la guerre oubliee: Crimea, the Forgotten War
Bibliography