Research Catalog

Title

Postcards from the Western Front : pilgrims, veterans, and tourists after the Great War / Mark Connelly.

Author

Connelly, Mark

Publication

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

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Details

Description

xvii, 454 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

"Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years following the Armistice. Mark Connelly's definitive and engaging study of the former Western Front examines how different and distinctive sub-communities--regional, ethnic and religious, civilian and armed forces--influenced the depth and strength of the visiting public's relationship with the battlefields, all the while comparing and contrasting this relationship with the viewpoint of the French and Belgian inhabitants of the devastated regions. Drawing from a vast archival history, a number of interlocking themes reveal themselves, including the lingering presence of the battlefields in the British domestic imagination, the often fraught experience of visiting the battlefields, memorials and cemeteries functioning as part of a historical-testimony to wartime realities, and the interactions between visitors and the people living in these former fighting zones. Thought focused on French and Belgian sites, Connelly nevertheless provides insight into other major battlefields fought over by troops from the British Empire. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs depicting battlefield tourism, Postcards from the Western Front offers a groundbreaking perspective on landscapes that rarely left anyone--whether tourist, inhabitant, veteran, or pilgrim--unmoved."--

Series Statement

Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 17

Uniform Title

Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 17.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• World War, 1914-1918 > Battlefields > Social aspects > Great Britain
• World War, 1914-1918 > Battlefields > France
• World War, 1914-1918 > Battlefields > Belgium
• World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Travel
• Tourism > France > History > 20th century
• Tourism > Belgium > History > 20th century
• Memorialization > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• War and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages > France > History > 20th century
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Belgium > History > 20th century
• Battlefields
• Memorialization
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Social aspects
• Tourism
• Travel
• Veterans
• War and society
• Belgium
• France
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Fragments from France and Belgium: Visiting Battlefields, 1914-18 -- Postcards from the Hotel -- Postcards from the Road -- Postcard Scenes: Devastation -- Postcards from Veterans -- Postcards from Pilgrims -- Postcards from Tourists -- Postcards from Ypres (and Its Salient) -- Postcards from Arras -- Postcards from Thiepval -- Postcards from Behind the Lines: Armentières, Bailleul, Béthune, Poperinghe ... and Around -- L'Envoi.

Call Number

JFE 22-4569

ISBN

• 0228011906
• 9780228011903
• 0228011892
• 9780228011897

OCLC

1277276407

Author

Connelly, Mark, author.

Title

Postcards from the Western Front : pilgrims, veterans, and tourists after the Great War / Mark Connelly.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 17

Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 17.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Connelly, Mark. Postcards from the Western Front. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228012643 9780228012641 (OCoLC)1334381489

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4569