Nienhaus, Luisa;
(2023)
Nationalism and Internationalism at Napoleonic Heritage Sites - Conflict Heritage, Dark Tourism, and European Identities.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Two hundred years on, the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and their legacy remain a contested topic. In the past ten years, the bicentenaries of the Napoleonic Wars and the death of Napoleon himself have received international attention. This project aims to assess how visitors to sites associated with the Napoleonic Wars perceive Napoleonic heritage in relation to national and European identities. Drawing on visitor surveys conducted at the Victory Gallery of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in England, Forum 1813 and Monument to the Battle of Nations in Germany, Memorial 1815 in Belgium and the Modern Department of the Army Museum in France, the collected data has been analysed using descriptive statistics, non-parametric hypothesis testing and cluster and principal component analysis. The results suggest that visitors are strongly influenced by, sentiments and history ascribed to their national identity (referred to as the nationality factor in this study), documented by significant differences between the analysed nationalities. This was observed irrespectively of whether visitors were encountered at sites in their home country or abroad (abroad factor). Additionally, distinct features of a site and their interpretation have the power to enhance or moderate the national perceptions through the tools and language used (site factor). When it comes to the question of how visitors perceive sites associated with the Napoleonic Wars in relation to their national and European identities, the nationality factor overlays the influencing aspects of the abroad factor. In contrast, the impact of the nationality factor and the site factor were at times commingling, therefore, not always presenting a clear-cut distinction between the two factors or the dominance of one over the other.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Nationalism and Internationalism at Napoleonic Heritage Sites - Conflict Heritage, Dark Tourism, and European Identities |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183251 |
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