The Construction of Memory in Interwar France

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Emergence of Commemoration
1. Experience and Memory
Narrating War
Seeing Memory
Lasting Impressions
2. Bodies and Names
An Immense Necropolis
Inscribing Absence
"This Precious Patrimony"
3. Making a Sacrifice
Structures
Resources
The Broken Plaque
4. Seeing the Signified
"A Kind of Anguished Terror": Salons, Critics and Artists
"An Artistic Character": Prefectoral Review Boards and Provincial Standards
"All My Designs Are Approved": The Business of Commemoration
"So Superior to Panegyrics": Monuments and Meanings
5. Contested Spaces
Sites of Commemoration
For God and Country?
Making It Local
Requiems for an Elm Tree
6. Dedication
Patterns of Ceremony
The Dead and the Living
The Power of Memory
Epilogue
The Thirties: Dying of the Light
The Sixties: Memory into History?
The Nineties: Return of the Repressed
Notes
Index
American Historical Association: J. Russell Major Prize
Won
Association for French Cultural Studies: Lawrence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
Won
Association of American Publishers: PROSE Book Award
Won
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