Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century
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- ISBN 9781474273527
- Weight: 596g
- Dimensions: 170 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history.
This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century explores memory in the ‘long twentieth century’. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting.
A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory since 1900.
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury’s successful student book series, Writing History.
Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
