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Bibliography/Sources

This section provides bibliographies on war/warfare and memorials/memorialization. The resources are divided into separate pages for war and memorials. These are not intended to be comprehensive but rather to provide the key resources for beginning study.

Bibliography for History, Memory and Memorials

• Confino, Alon. "Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method," American Historical Review 102, No. 5 (Dec. 1997), 1386-1403.

• Connerton, Paul. 1989. How Societies Remember. New York: Cambridge University Press Forum on "History and Memory" American Historical Review 102 (1997): 1371-1412.

• Evans, Martin and Ken Lunn, eds. War and Memory in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Berg, 1997.

• Gillis, John R., ed. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

• Graham, Peter and Peter Howard, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

• Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

• Inglis, K.S. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005.

• King, Alex. Memorials of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance. Oxford: Berg, 1998.

• Klein, Kerwin Lee. "On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse." Representations, 69 (2000): 127-150.

• LeGoff, Jacques. History and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

• Levinson, Sandford. Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies. Duke University Press, 1998.

• Longworth, Philip. The Unending Vigil: History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1985.

• Marling, Karal Ann and J. Wettenhall. Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories and the American Hero. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1991.

• Moriarty, C. "The Absent Dead and Figurative First World War Memorials" Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 39(1995): 8-40.

• Mosse, George. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

• Nora, Pierre.. Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, Vol. I: Conflicts and Divisions; Vol. II: Traditions (1996 translation of Les Lieux de Memoire). New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

• Pickford, Henry W. "Conflict and Commemoration: Two Berlin Memorials" Modernism/modernity - Volume 12, Number 1, January 2005: 133-173.

• Piehler, G. Kurt, Remembering War the American Way. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 2004.

• Shanken, Andrew M. "Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II" Art Bulletin, 84 (March 2002): 130–47.

• Sherman, Daniel. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

• Tarlow, S. "An Archaeology of Remembering: Death, Bereavement and the First World War." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7((1997): 105-21.

• Wingate, Jennifer. "Over the Top: The Doughboy in World War I Memorials and Visual Culture" American Art, 19 (Summer 2005): 26–47.

• Winter, Jay and Emmanuel Sivan, eds., War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

• ________. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.