Commemorations : the politics of national identity / edited by John R. Gillis
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- 1463680
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994
- xii, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 0691032009 (acid-free paper) (cloth) (cloth acid-free paper)
- 0691029253 (paperback)
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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 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.
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- Introduction: Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship / R. Gillis
- Ch. I. Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept? / Richard Handler
- Ch. II. Identity, Heritage, and History / David Lowenthal
- Ch. III. National Memory in Early Modern England / David Cressy
- Ch. IV. Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland / John Bodnar
- Ch. V. The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq / Eric Davis
- Ch. VI. The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel / Yael Zerubavel
- Ch. VII. The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument / Kirk Savage
- Ch. VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War / Thomas W. Laqueur
- Ch. IX. The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War / G. Kurt Piebler
- Ch. X. Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I / Daniel J. Sherman.
- Ch. XI. Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany / Rudy J. Koshar
- Ch. XII. Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Herman Lebovics
- Ch. XIII. Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory / Claudia Koonz.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Gillis, John R
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