{"title":"Fallen Monuments: An Introduction","authors":"D. Dean","doi":"10.1515/IPH-2018-0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay introduces the special section on Fallen Monuments. It explores the importance of monuments as one of the ways in which publics engage with the past and explains why they often become sites of debate and controversy. In addition to summarizing the five contributions that make up the special section, the author offers some reflections on the afterlives of monuments with examples from Canada and Poland.","PeriodicalId":52352,"journal":{"name":"International Public History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/IPH-2018-0010","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Public History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/IPH-2018-0010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This essay introduces the special section on Fallen Monuments. It explores the importance of monuments as one of the ways in which publics engage with the past and explains why they often become sites of debate and controversy. In addition to summarizing the five contributions that make up the special section, the author offers some reflections on the afterlives of monuments with examples from Canada and Poland.