A European Memory? : : Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance / / ed. by Bo Stråth, Małgorzata Pakier.

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• MitwirkendeR: Apor, Péter,; Berger, Stefan,; Elenius, Lars,; Jansen, Jan,; Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Karge, Heike,; Karlsson, Klas-Göran,; Kaschuba, Wolfgang,; Kaye, James,; Maier, Clemens,; Morgan, Kevin,; Musabegovic, Senadin,; Müller, Jan-Werner,; Nattermann, Ruth,; Pakier, Małgorzata,; Rees, Arfon,; Stokholm Banke, Cecilie Felicia,; Stråth, Bo,; Troebst, Stefan,; Tyszka, Stanisław,; Uhl, Heidemarie,; Whitling, Frederick,
• HerausgeberIn: Pakier, Małgorzata,; Stråth, Bo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)

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...

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