Sites of imperial memory : commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /
Europe's great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial ru...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Studies in imperialism.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Beyond national memory. Nora's Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world
- Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller PART I: Monuments. 2. Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery
- Xavier Guégan. 3. Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon
- Shraddha Kumbhojkar. 4. The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history
- James Koranyi. 5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan's post-imperial commemoration
- Barak Kushner. PART II: Heroes and villains. 6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and French 'heroic imperialists' as sites of memory
- Berny Sèbe. 7. Jan Pieterszoon Coen: a man they love to hate. The first governor-general of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial site of memory
- Victor Enthoven 8. The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain
- Richard Goebelt. 9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory and empire
- John Stuart. 10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia
- Stefan Creuzberger. PART III: Remembering and forgetting. 11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the raj in post-war India
- Maria Misra. 12. 'Forgive and forget'? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory
- Winfried Speitkamp. 13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
- Katja Kaiser. 14. Recollections of rubber
- Frank Uekötter. Select bibliography. Index.