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This book tells the story of monuments in two cities that share a parallel and turbulent history: Strasbourg and Poznan. With the Franco-Prussian War begins the well-known story of the destruction and erection of memorials. This book not only explains the mechanisms related to how memorials have fun...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-607212024-03-27T14:15:05Z Reading Monuments Praczyk, Małgorzata Anthropology of space Centuries Comparative Comparative history Cultural studies European history Memory studies Monument Monuments Nineteenth Poznań Praczyk Reading Strasbourg Study Theory of history Twentieth thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods This book tells the story of monuments in two cities that share a parallel and turbulent history: Strasbourg and Poznan. With the Franco-Prussian War begins the well-known story of the destruction and erection of memorials. This book not only explains the mechanisms related to how memorials have functioned in the past, but also contributes to our understanding of current modes of their perception. It analyzes their material shape, the problem of affect, and their meaning, not only in relation to the political context and the work of memory. This book shows how the form of monuments reflects the social understanding of such basic questions as the perception of nature, gender issues and the image of those who are in power, and how, and in which aspects, those kind of objects actually change the city space we live in. 2023-01-19T16:03:07Z 2023-01-19T16:03:07Z 2020 book ONIX_20230119_9783653071481_3 9783653071481 9783631711064 9783631711071 9783631676752 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60721 eng Studies in Contemporary History application/pdf n/a 9783653071481.pdf https://www.peterlang.com/downloadpdf/title/19542 Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b16685 10.3726/b16685 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783653071481 9783631711064 9783631711071 9783631676752 8 216 Bern open access
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