Memorials of the Great War in Britain The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance

King (Cambridge U.) brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead of World War I were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. He argues that contested, multiple, and ambiguous meanings were forged into united public observance by the creative process of establishing new meanings for traditional forms of memorial. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR