Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era

The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.

Author: J. MacLeod
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 259
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781349355136

About the Author
DONALD BLOXHAM Professor of Modern History, the University of Edinburgh, UK KAREN COX Associate Professor and Director of Public History, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA KEVIN CRAMER Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA PATRICK FINNEY Lecturer in International Politics, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK MADOKA FUTAMURA Visiting Research Fellow, the War Crimes Research Group, King's College London, UK JOHN HORNE Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland JEFFREY KIMBALL Professor Emeritus, Miami University, Ohio, USA CHRISTIAN KOLLER Senior Lecturer in History, Bangor University, UK JENNY MACLEOD Lecturer in Twentieth Century History, the University of Hull, UK M.G.SHEFTALL Associate Professor of Communication Studies, the Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Japan ANATOL SHMELEV Research Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA STEPHEN TYRE Lecturer in History, St Andrews University, UK KARINE VARLEY Lecturer in History, the University of Edinburgh, UK VANDA WILCOX Junior Research Fellow, The Queen's College, the University of Oxford, UK