Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0691032009 ISBN 13: 9780691032009

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

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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Recensione

"This fascinating book, . . . points out how peoples and nations can use national identity to erase the past, to recreate it, to cause it to flourish, to meld it in with the present and the future."--Peter Rollins, Journal of American Culture

"Brilliantly conceived and meticulously edited; the contributions are uniformly excellent. . . . No better introduction to the burgeoning field of historical memory is likely to be found."--Merrill D. Peterson, The Journal of American History

"Scholars of collective memory, and the sociology of culture more generally, will find much that is provocative and poignant in this collection."--Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Contemporary Sociology

"This is a vital book which deserves our utmost attention."--Martin Evans, History Today

"Demonstrates that 'memory work' reveals as much about the present as about the past. And that can make extraordinary history."--Christine Schwartz, The Voice Literary Supplement

Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction: Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship	3
Ch. I	Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept?	27
Ch. II	Identity, Heritage, and History	41
Ch. III	National Memory in Early Modern England	61
Ch. IV	Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland	74
Ch. V	The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq	90
Ch. VI	The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel	105
Ch. VII	The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument	127
Ch. VIII	Memory and Naming in the Great War	150
Ch. IX	The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War	168
Ch. X	Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I	186
Ch. XI	Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany	215
Ch. XII	Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	239
Ch. XIII	Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory	258
	Index	281

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691032009
• ISBN 13: 9780691032009
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Redattore: Gillis John R.