A European Memory? : : Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance / / ed. by Bo Stråth, Małgorzata Pakier.
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary European History ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction. A European Memory?
- Part I Europe, Memory, Politics and History: A Normative and Theoretical Framing
- Section 1 Normative Perspectives and Lines of Division of European Memory Constructions
- Chapter 1 On ‘European Memory’: Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks
- Chapter 2 The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanisation
- Chapter 3 Halecki Revisited: Europe’s Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance
- Chapter 4 Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics?
- Section 2 Towards a Fluid Conceptualisation of Memory Constructs
- Chapter 5 Culture, Politics, Palimpsest: Theses on Memory and Society
- Chapter 6 Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance: Reflections on Memory and History
- Chapter 7 Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories
- Part II Remembering Europe’s Dark Pasts: Four Fields of Commemoration
- Section 3 Remembering the Second World War
- Chapter 8 Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe, 1945–2005
- Chapter 9 Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance: (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
- Chapter 10 A Victory Celebrated: Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation
- Section 4 Towards a Europeanisation of the Commemoration of the Holocaust
- Chapter 11 Remembering Europe’s Heart of Darkness: Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies
- Chapter 12 Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
- Chapter 13 A Europeanisation of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of the Film Europa, Europa
- Chapter 14 Italian Commemoration of the Shoah: A Survivor-Oriented Narrative and Its Impact on Politics and Practices of Remembrance
- Section 5 Coming to Terms with Europe’s Communist Past
- Chapter 15 Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States
- Chapter 16 Eurocommunism: Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe
- Chapter 17 The Memory of the Dead Body
- Chapter 18 Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe
- Section 6 Coming to Terms with Europe’s Colonial Past
- Chapter 19 Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence in France
- Chapter 20 Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-Speaking Minorities at the North Calotte
- Conclusion. Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanisation of Memories
- References
- Index