ISBN:
9780691186658
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
,
25 halftones
DDC:
305.8/009
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Ethnicity History
;
Memory Social aspects
;
History
;
National characteristics History
;
Nationalism History
;
Politik
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Denkmal
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
;
Ethnizität
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Denkmal
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Politik
;
Ethnizität
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
;
Ethnizität
;
Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
;
Nationalismus
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
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 of these uniquely modern phenomena. In this volume, leading historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers explore the relationship between collective memory and national identity in diverse cultures throughout history. Placing commemorations in their historical settings, the contributors disclose the contested nature of these monuments by showing how groups and individuals struggle to shape the past to their own ends. The volume is introduced by John Gillis's broad overview of the development of public memory in relation to the history of the nation-state. Other contributions address the usefulness of identity as a cross-cultural concept (Richard Handler), the connection between identity, heritage, and history (David Lowenthal), national memory in early modern England (David Cressy), commemoration in Cleveland (John Bodnar), the museum and the politics of social control in modern Iraq (Eric Davis), invented tradition and collective memory in Israel (Yael Zerubavel), black emancipation and the civil war monument (Kirk Savage), memory and naming in the Great War (Thomas Laqueur), American commemoration of World War I (Kurt Piehler), art, commerce, and the production of memory in France after World War I (Daniel Sherman), historic preservation in twentieth-century Germany (Rudy Koshar), the struggle over French identity in the early twentieth century (Herman Lebovics), and the commemoration of concentration camps in the new Germany (Claudia Koonz)
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780691186658
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186658
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/511635?rskey=AyzcPs
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
