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Contested Sites - Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Contested Sites - Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Labour History
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The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new
phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in
former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for
'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was
emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the
subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the
traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it
necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and
understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role
of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite
recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols
in public discourse, political monuments have received little
attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for
commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that
have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender
and power relations that determine what is remembered (or
forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones
commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming
individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the
relations that went into the making of public memory in modern
Britain and its radical tradition.
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