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The Great War, Memory and Ritual

其他書名	Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939
出版	Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 2002
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uWQDzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned twenties and thirties is here called into question by Mark Connelly. Through a detailed local study of a district containing a wide variety of religious, economic and social variations, he shows how both the survivors and the bereaved came to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War. His study illustrates the ways in which communities as diverse as the Irish Catholics of Wapping, the Jews of Stepney and the Presbyterian expatriate Scots of Ilford, thanks to the actions of the local agents of authority and influence - clergymen, rabbis, councillors, teachers and employers - shaped the memory of their dead and created a very definite history of the war. Close focus on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials expands to a wider examination of how those memorials became a focus for a continuing need to remember, particularly each year on Armistice Day. Dr. Mark Connelly is Reuters Lecturer in Media History, University of Kent.