
Sacred Places
War Memorials in the Australian Landscape
K.S. Inglis(Author)
Melbourne University Press
3rd Edition
Published on 1. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-522-85479-4 (ISBN)
Description
This revised and updated edition of Inglis' award-winning title features a new epilogue, new pictures and a new introduction by Jay Winter.War memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the Australian landscape. They embody what Australians have wanted to say about the service and death of their compatriots in overseas wars, and express pride, grief, perceptions of God, empire and nation. The story of their making is composed of both harmony and conflict. Ken Inglis argues that they are the shrines of a civil religion. After the slaughter of World War I, Australians embarked on a remarkable program of war memorial construction. These memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the Australian landscape, becoming the holy sites of a new civil and nationalist religion-the cult of Anzac.In this moving and beautifully written book, Ken Inglis traces the development of the Anzac cult, as well as looking at those who rejected it. ""Sacred Places"" also examines a paradox: why, as Australia's wars recede in memory, have these memorials and what they stand for become cherished more than ever?
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Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Carlton
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
206 pictures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
889 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-522-85479-4 (9780522854794)
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Previous edition

K. S. Inglis with Tom Frame
Sacred Places
Book
04/2005
Melbourne University Press
€53.42
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Person
Ken Inglis is one of Australia's most esteemed historians. He has been Professor of History at the Australian National University and the University of Papua New Guinea, and Vice-Chancellor of the latter. He was a general editor of Australians: A Historical Library (eleven volumes) and chairman of the editorial board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (MUP), and continues to be a vigorous contributor to public debate. His books include Australian Colonists and This Is the ABC.