Commemorations : The Politics of National Identity /
Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose sight of the recent origins and diverse meanings o...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1994.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- INTRODUCTION. Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship / Gillis, John R.
- PART ONE: The Problem of Identity and Memory
- CHAPTER I. Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept? / Handler, Richard
- CHAPTER II. Identity, Heritage, and History / Lowenthal, David
- PART TWO: Memory in the Construction of National Identities
- CHAPTER III. National Memory in Early Modern England / Cressy, David
- CHAPTER IV. Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland / Bodnar, John
- CHAPTER V. The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq / Davis, Eric
- CHAPTER VI. The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel / Zerubavel, Yael
- PART THREE: Memories of War and Wars over Memory
- CHAPTER VII. The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument / Savage, Kirk
- CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War / Laqueur, Thomas W.
- CHAPTER IX . The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War / Piehler, G. Kurt
- CHAPTER X. Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War / Sherman, Daniel J.
- PART FOUR: Politics of Memory and Identity
- CHAPTER XI. Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth
- Century Germany / Koshar, Rudy J.
- CHAPTER XII. Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Lebovics, Herman
- CHAPTER XIII. Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory / Koonz, Claudia
- Index