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Papers by Jay Winter
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 20, 2021
The Journal of Military History, 2007
The Cambridge History of the First World War
Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times, 2017
The war on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 was the subject of a wide variety of represent... more The war on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 was the subject of a wide variety of representations while it was being waged. After the Armistice, there followed a virtual riot of representations, in prose, in poetry, in film, in painting and sculpture, in photography, in commemorative sites and rituals, in political discourse. This is hardly surprising, given the wartime presence there of over 10 million men, and the belief-which I share-that it was on the Western Front that the war was won and lost. But there is another level of symbolic notation I would like to address today. With reference primarily to British evidence, I want to trace prewar and wartime representations of war, and show how these symbolic systems accommodated configuring a kind of war no one had ever seen before. But I also want to show how the enormity of the casualties suffered on the Western Front, and the nature of the war fought there, helped configure this part of the conflict as iconic. The Western Front became iconic in the inter-war years and after in part because it stood for industrial warfare as a whole; but in part, its iconic status was related not to a precise meaning it conveyed, but to its power to evoke the notion that the war had no meaning at all. The Western Front is the site where mass death converted war from a conventional contest to a puzzling, unprecedented catastrophe. In this sense, it was there, in the 400 kilometres or so that separated the Belgian coast from the Swiss border in Alsace, that the Apocalypse arrived. As I have argued elsewhere, it was an Apocalypse truncated, an Apocalypse without hope, 1 inscribed
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](International Review of Social History, 2004
Urbanization can be considered one of the main components in the demographic change of western Eu... more Urbanization can be considered one of the main components in the demographic change of western Europe in the modern period-the unprecedented population growth of the nineteenth century was directly associated with the rapid urban expansion that took place throughout the region. Whereas in the early seventeenth century-apart from some intriguing exceptions like the Netherlands-only a small proportion of western Europe's population lived in cities and towns with over 10,000 inhabitants, at the end of the eighteenth century this pattern had been transformed into a significant urban network, characterized by a relatively large and growing population. It was the early nineteenth century, however, that really marked the beginning of a demographic transformation in Europe. The century that followed was to be characterized by unprecedented population growth and urban expansion, in combination with an acceleration in large-city growth-a process in which each individual state followed its own course. However, the overall development of nineteenth-century urbanization led to a process of general convergence: on the eve of the twentieth century, European states were dominated by national capitals, major ports and regional cities in highly industrialized regions. Richard Lawton and Robert Lee, the volume's editors, make it clear in their introduction to this book that if one accepts that urban population processes are essential in the analysis of demographic and social change, it is vital to our understanding that specific hypotheses are tested empirically at a micro level-i.e. at the level of individual cities. In this volume the editors choose to carry out such an analysis by focusing on a specific type of city: port cities. In earlier work, Lawton and Lee posited the existence of an identifiable typology of cities, each with its own demographic, economic and social characteristics, and useful therefore in analysing urban population development. 1 The editors claim that within this framework of typologies port cities are all the more interesting because of their critical role in urban development in western Europe: within most European states the role of port cities within overall urban development seems evident-for example, in 1801 twenty-one of Britain's fifty-four largest towns (with populations in excess of 10,000) were seaports. In the volume's ten micro-level case studies of port cities (Glasgow: Gibb; Genoa:
European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 2011
Framework 2 Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past 3... more Framework 2 Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past 35 aleida assmann 3 Repetitive structures in language and history 51 reinhart koselleck 4 Unstuck in time. Or: the sudden presence of the past 67 chris lorenz The Performative Turn 5 Co-memorations. Performing the past peter burke 6 'Indelible memories'. The tattooed body as theatre of memory jane caplan 7 Incongruous images. 'Before, during, and after' the Holocaust marianne hirsch and leo spitzer 8 Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre alessandro portelli Media and the Arts 9 Music and memory in Mozart's Zauberflöte jan assmann 10 The many afterlives of Ivanhoe ann rigney 11 Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks joep leerssen 12 Indigestible images. On the ethics and limits of representation frank van vree Identity, Politics and the Performance of History 13 'In these days of convulsive political change'. Discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815 frans grijzenhout 14 Restitution as a means of remembrance. Evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and in Poland after 1989 stanislaw tyszka 15 European identity and the politics of remembrance chiara bottici
The English Historical Review, 2011
... This case is tellingly illustrated here in Efrat Ben-Ze'ev's discussion of élite Is... more ... This case is tellingly illustrated here in Efrat Ben-Ze'ev's discussion of élite Israeli veterans of the 1948 war whose own, distinctly unofficial ... War in 1982 accommodated the rehabilitation of Ariel Sharon, who had been formally found responsible for them by the Kahan Commission ...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Sep 1, 2014
The Journal of American History, Aug 26, 2015
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017
Sites of memory are topoi with a life history. They have an initial, creative phase, when they ar... more Sites of memory are topoi with a life history. They have an initial, creative phase, when they are constructed or adapted to particular commemorative purposes. Then follows a period of institutionalization and routinization of their use. Such markings of the calendar, indicating moments of remembrance at particular places, can last for decades, or they can be abruptly halted. In most instances, the significance of sites of memory fades away with the passing of the social groups which initiated the practice. Sites of memory operate on many levels of aggregation and touches many facets of associative life. While such sites were familiar in the ancient and medieval period, they have proliferated in more recent times. Consequently, the subject has attracted much academic and popular discussion. We therefore concentrate here on sites of memory in the epoch of the nation state, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Odile Jacob eBooks, Sep 22, 2021
Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War, 2021
Sociétés & Représentations, 2000
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Éditions de la Sorbonne. © Éditions de la Sorbonne. Tou... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Éditions de la Sorbonne. © Éditions de la Sorbonne. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.
Histoire@Politique, 2007
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. Distribution électron... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-politique-2007-2-page-2.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info.
Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present, 2005
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 20, 2021
The Journal of Military History, 2007
The Cambridge History of the First World War
Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times, 2017
The war on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 was the subject of a wide variety of represent... more The war on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 was the subject of a wide variety of representations while it was being waged. After the Armistice, there followed a virtual riot of representations, in prose, in poetry, in film, in painting and sculpture, in photography, in commemorative sites and rituals, in political discourse. This is hardly surprising, given the wartime presence there of over 10 million men, and the belief-which I share-that it was on the Western Front that the war was won and lost. But there is another level of symbolic notation I would like to address today. With reference primarily to British evidence, I want to trace prewar and wartime representations of war, and show how these symbolic systems accommodated configuring a kind of war no one had ever seen before. But I also want to show how the enormity of the casualties suffered on the Western Front, and the nature of the war fought there, helped configure this part of the conflict as iconic. The Western Front became iconic in the inter-war years and after in part because it stood for industrial warfare as a whole; but in part, its iconic status was related not to a precise meaning it conveyed, but to its power to evoke the notion that the war had no meaning at all. The Western Front is the site where mass death converted war from a conventional contest to a puzzling, unprecedented catastrophe. In this sense, it was there, in the 400 kilometres or so that separated the Belgian coast from the Swiss border in Alsace, that the Apocalypse arrived. As I have argued elsewhere, it was an Apocalypse truncated, an Apocalypse without hope, 1 inscribed
International Review of Social History, 2004
Urbanization can be considered one of the main components in the demographic change of western Eu... more Urbanization can be considered one of the main components in the demographic change of western Europe in the modern period-the unprecedented population growth of the nineteenth century was directly associated with the rapid urban expansion that took place throughout the region. Whereas in the early seventeenth century-apart from some intriguing exceptions like the Netherlands-only a small proportion of western Europe's population lived in cities and towns with over 10,000 inhabitants, at the end of the eighteenth century this pattern had been transformed into a significant urban network, characterized by a relatively large and growing population. It was the early nineteenth century, however, that really marked the beginning of a demographic transformation in Europe. The century that followed was to be characterized by unprecedented population growth and urban expansion, in combination with an acceleration in large-city growth-a process in which each individual state followed its own course. However, the overall development of nineteenth-century urbanization led to a process of general convergence: on the eve of the twentieth century, European states were dominated by national capitals, major ports and regional cities in highly industrialized regions. Richard Lawton and Robert Lee, the volume's editors, make it clear in their introduction to this book that if one accepts that urban population processes are essential in the analysis of demographic and social change, it is vital to our understanding that specific hypotheses are tested empirically at a micro level-i.e. at the level of individual cities. In this volume the editors choose to carry out such an analysis by focusing on a specific type of city: port cities. In earlier work, Lawton and Lee posited the existence of an identifiable typology of cities, each with its own demographic, economic and social characteristics, and useful therefore in analysing urban population development. 1 The editors claim that within this framework of typologies port cities are all the more interesting because of their critical role in urban development in western Europe: within most European states the role of port cities within overall urban development seems evident-for example, in 1801 twenty-one of Britain's fifty-four largest towns (with populations in excess of 10,000) were seaports. In the volume's ten micro-level case studies of port cities (Glasgow: Gibb; Genoa:
European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 2011
Framework 2 Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past 3... more Framework 2 Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past 35 aleida assmann 3 Repetitive structures in language and history 51 reinhart koselleck 4 Unstuck in time. Or: the sudden presence of the past 67 chris lorenz The Performative Turn 5 Co-memorations. Performing the past peter burke 6 'Indelible memories'. The tattooed body as theatre of memory jane caplan 7 Incongruous images. 'Before, during, and after' the Holocaust marianne hirsch and leo spitzer 8 Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre alessandro portelli Media and the Arts 9 Music and memory in Mozart's Zauberflöte jan assmann 10 The many afterlives of Ivanhoe ann rigney 11 Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks joep leerssen 12 Indigestible images. On the ethics and limits of representation frank van vree Identity, Politics and the Performance of History 13 'In these days of convulsive political change'. Discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815 frans grijzenhout 14 Restitution as a means of remembrance. Evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and in Poland after 1989 stanislaw tyszka 15 European identity and the politics of remembrance chiara bottici
The English Historical Review, 2011
... This case is tellingly illustrated here in Efrat Ben-Ze'ev's discussion of élite Is... more ... This case is tellingly illustrated here in Efrat Ben-Ze'ev's discussion of élite Israeli veterans of the 1948 war whose own, distinctly unofficial ... War in 1982 accommodated the rehabilitation of Ariel Sharon, who had been formally found responsible for them by the Kahan Commission ...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Sep 1, 2014
The Journal of American History, Aug 26, 2015
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017
Sites of memory are topoi with a life history. They have an initial, creative phase, when they ar... more Sites of memory are topoi with a life history. They have an initial, creative phase, when they are constructed or adapted to particular commemorative purposes. Then follows a period of institutionalization and routinization of their use. Such markings of the calendar, indicating moments of remembrance at particular places, can last for decades, or they can be abruptly halted. In most instances, the significance of sites of memory fades away with the passing of the social groups which initiated the practice. Sites of memory operate on many levels of aggregation and touches many facets of associative life. While such sites were familiar in the ancient and medieval period, they have proliferated in more recent times. Consequently, the subject has attracted much academic and popular discussion. We therefore concentrate here on sites of memory in the epoch of the nation state, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Odile Jacob eBooks, Sep 22, 2021
Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War, 2021
Sociétés & Représentations, 2000
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Éditions de la Sorbonne. © Éditions de la Sorbonne. Tou... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Éditions de la Sorbonne. © Éditions de la Sorbonne. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.
Histoire@Politique, 2007
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. Distribution électron... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-politique-2007-2-page-2.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info.
Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present, 2005