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14 octobre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.pup.49753
- isbn: 9791032001509
- eisbn: 9791036577024
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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nationalisme commémoration Première Guerre mondiale imaginaire impérialisme race empire état-nation empire commemoration imperialism nationalism first world war race History HIS037070 HBLWSujets proches
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Ben Wellings et al., « Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.49753
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Introduction In November 2016, at the halfway point of the First World War Centenary, a modest exhibition based on volunteer research and supported by the UKHeritage Lottery Fund opened in the London suburb of Wood Green. Far from the Western Front presented accounts of South Asian servicemen who served across the many theatres of war. It was only mounted for a few days, but it sought to complicate both the dominant British narrative of the First World War as trench warfare in France and Belg...