The centenary commemorations of the Great War in Belgium
As the start of the centenary commemoration of the First World War ( wwi ) in 2014 drew closer, Belgium saw the rise of a bigger ‘commemorative competition’. The different governments launched their own commemorative programmes, parallel to (and sometimes against) each other. In the slipstream of this, a huge commercial and business competition erupted in a struggle for funding and visitors. There was also an unprecedented funding of new academic wwi -research. This contribution first makes some remarks on this research, and then looks briefly at the commemorative and memorial policies. On the... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 131, Iss 3, Pp 76-86 (2016) |
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Schlagwörter: | History / Belgium / First World War / History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26612834 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/67a571fb3f414fde89fd400ef3b75b60 |