Commemorations : : The Politics of National Identity /

Commemorations : : The Politics of National Identity / / ed. by John R. Gillis.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Bodnar, John,
Cressy, David,
Davis, Eric,
Gillis, John R.,
Handler, Richard,
Koonz, Claudia,
Koshar, Rudy J.,
Laqueur, Thomas W.,
Lebovics, Herman,
Lowenthal, David,
Piehler, G. Kurt,
Savage, Kirk,
Sherman, Daniel J.,
Zerubavel, Yael,
HerausgeberIn:
Gillis, John R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1994
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 25 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • INTRODUCTION. Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship
  • PART ONE: The Problem of Identity and Memory
  • CHAPTER I. Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept?
  • CHAPTER II. Identity, Heritage, and History
  • PART TWO: Memory in the Construction of National Identities
  • CHAPTER III. National Memory in Early Modern England
  • CHAPTER IV. Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland
  • CHAPTER V. The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq
  • CHAPTER VI. The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel
  • PART THREE: Memories of War and Wars over Memory
  • CHAPTER VII. The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument
  • CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War
  • CHAPTER IX . The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War
  • CHAPTER X. Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War
  • PART FOUR: Politics of Memory and Identity
  • CHAPTER XI. Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth - Century Germany
  • CHAPTER XII. Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
  • CHAPTER XIII. Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory
  • Index

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