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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Von Tunzelmann, Alex

Hardcover

General World HistoryHolocaust

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ISBN10: 0063081679
ISBN13: 9780063081673
Publisher: Harper
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.35
Language: English

An Economist Best Book of the Year

In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers--and confronts--the past.

In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders, and imperialists. General Robert E. Lee, head of the Confederate Army, was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Colston, a member of Parliament and slave trader, was knocked off his plinth in Bristol, England, and hurled into the harbor. Statues of Christopher Columbus were toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. Belgian King Leopold II was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill's monument in London was daubed with the word racist. As these iconic effigies fell, the backlash was swift and intense.

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