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Remembering the Great War - Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. By Jay Winter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 310. $34.95. - Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War. By Joanna Bourke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. 336. $32.50. - “White Feathers and Wounded Men: Female Patriotism and the Memory of the Great War.” By Nicoletta Gullace. Journal of British Studies36, no. 2 (1997): 178–206. - “Reconstructions: Prosthetics and the Rehabilitation of the Male Body in World War I France.” By Roxanne Panchasi. Differences7, no. 3 (1995): 109–40. - “Re-membering the Modern Subject: The Wounded Body and the Politics of Mourning, 1917–1937.” By Matthew Brady Brower. M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, 1996.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Susan Kingsley Kent*
Affiliation:
University of Colorado at Boulder

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2 See Laqueur's, Thomas review of Winter in “The Past's Past,” London Review of Books 18, no. 18 (19 September 1996): 37Google Scholar; and Darrow's, Margaret review of Bourke, in American Historical Review 102, no. 1 (February 1997): 111–12CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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4 In 1911, the combined total population of England, Wales, and Scotland was 40,831,000. Men between the ages of 15 and 44 numbered 9,404,000, women 10,135,000. See Mitchell, B. R., European Historical Statistics, 1750–1975, 2d ed. (New York, 1981), pp. 34, 6263Google Scholar.

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