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Sacred Places - War Memorials in the Australian Landscape (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
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Sacred Places - War Memorials in the Australian Landscape (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
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This revised and updated edition of Inglis' award-winning title
features a new epilogue, new pictures and a new introduction by Jay
Winter.War memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the
Australian landscape. They embody what Australians have wanted to
say about the service and death of their compatriots in overseas
wars, and express pride, grief, perceptions of God, empire and
nation. The story of their making is composed of both harmony and
conflict. Ken Inglis argues that they are the shrines of a civil
religion. After the slaughter of World War I, Australians embarked
on a remarkable program of war memorial construction. These
memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the Australian
landscape, becoming the holy sites of a new civil and nationalist
religion-the cult of Anzac.In this moving and beautifully written
book, Ken Inglis traces the development of the Anzac cult, as well
as looking at those who rejected it. ""Sacred Places"" also
examines a paradox: why, as Australia's wars recede in memory, have
these memorials and what they stand for become cherished more than
ever?
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