Monuments, mundanity and memory: Altering 'place' and 'space' at the national war memorial (canada)

Memory Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 379-394

  Szpunar, Piotr M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; collective memory; materiality; political geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957270136     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698010374286     Document Type: Article

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