Tombs of the Great Leaders : A Contemporary Guide.
Title:
Tombs of the Great Leaders : A Contemporary Guide.
Author:
Leick, Gwendolyn.
ISBN:
9781780232263
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Tombs of The Great Leaders: A Contemporary Guide -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Enduring Signification: Mounds, Monuments and Mausolea -- Stone Age Burials -- Bronze Age Elite Tombs -- Hellenistic Eclecticism and the Invention of the Mausoleum -- Roman Imperial Tombs -- Royal Burials of Christian Monarchs in the Middle Ages -- The Impact of the French Revolution -- Napoleon's Tomb -- Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois -- 2. Safeguarding the Immortality of Revolutionary Leaders: Mausolea in Communist Countries -- Lenin's Tomb -- The Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh -- Mao Zedong Memorial Hall -- Kumsusan Memorial Hall, 'The Sacred Temple of Juche' -- Destroyed Communist Mausolea -- 3. Fantasy and Reality: The Burial Places of Fascist Leaders -- Mussolini's Crypt in Predappio -- Franco and the Righteous Fallen in Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos -- 4. New Nations, New Monuments: Mausolea for Fathers of the Nation -- Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum (Lingmu) on Purple Mountain -- Anıtkabir: The Memorial Tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- Mazar-e-Quaid-e-Azam, 'The Mausoleum of the Great Leader', Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi -- The Mausoleum of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka -- 5. Not the Final Resting Place: Temporary Mausolea -- Chiang Kai-shek at Chihu, Taiwan -- Yasser Arafat at Ramallah -- 6. Appropriated Traditions -- Sukarno and Suharto in Java -- The Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran -- 7. Political Mausolea in Africa -- North African Mausolea -- Sub-Saharan Mausolea -- Dr Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra -- The Mausoleum of M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Kinshasa -- The Mausoleum of Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Lilongwe, Malawi -- The Tomb of Dr John Garang de Mabior, Juba, South Sudan -- Reinventing the Political Tomb in Africa -- References -- Chronological List of Tombs and Mausolea -- Bibliographies.
Acknowledgements -- Illustration Acknowledgements -- Index.
Abstract:
A visit to Ankara, Turkey, would include a trip to Anitkabir, the burial site of Turkey's founder and first president, Ataturk. The massive stone building houses numerous sculptures and a large ceremonial plaza and is surrounded by an elaborate park. Ataturk is far from the only former leader to be remembered by such decorative means. Since the beginning of human history, societies have built tombs and mausoleums to house the remains of people who changed the course of history. These grave sites exist not only as sites of memory for different cultures, but also serve the political needs of subsequent regimes. Tracing the development of the political burial places since the Bronze Age tumuli, Tombs of the Great Leaders explores what attracts pilgrimages to these sites, how politics play out in these locations, how they convey meaning and safeguard a person's immortality, and how history is commemorated through these structures. Looking in depth at tombs built in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Gwendolyn Leick surveys the history of these modern leaders, their deaths, and the creation of the mausoleums. She traverses the globe, investigating the memorial sites of Communist leaders such as Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Kim Il-Sung; Fascist rulers Franco and Mussolini; and founding fathers of new nations, including Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka, Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi, and Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing. Leick describes the experience of visiting the sites, the responses they elicit, and the context in which they are viewed today. Combining history, architecture, and travel writing, Tombs of the Great Leaders is a revealing study of the self-perpetuation of politicians, despots, and dictators alike.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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