Offers new insights into the political and modern uses of public monuments devoted to figures from the past and the role of historical culture in the creation of national identity.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
A note on language and names
List of abbreviations


Preface

Introduction

1. State-building, historical culture and public monuments in nineteenth-century Belgium

2. The physical setting of the monument: Brussels' Place Royale

3. The creation of the monument

4. The changing meanings of the monument

5. The monument as a lieu de mémoire I: culture and politics

6. The monument as a lieu de mémoire II: history and national identity

Conclusion


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Index