Adolf Hitler
Aestheticism
Allegory
American War Mothers
Bourgeoisie
Buchenwald concentration camp
Burial
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Cemetery
Claudia Koonz
Collective memory
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Culture and Society
Culture war
David Lowenthal
Ecomuseum
Epigraphy
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Eric Hobsbawm
Ethnic group
Folklore
Germans
Historic preservation
Historic site
Ideology
Invented tradition
Iraqis
Israelis
Jews
John Foxe
Karl Jaspers
Konrad Adenauer
Lincoln Memorial
Literature
Memoir
Modernity
Multitude
Narrative
Nation state
National identity
Nazism
New Nation (United States)
Newspaper
Patriotism
Personhood
Poilu
Political culture
Politics
Popular culture
Preservationist
Protestantism
Puritans
Racism
Repatriation (humans)
Rhetoric
Rolf Hochhuth
Romanticism
Slavery
Sovereignty
Subversion
Superiority (short story)
Surrealism
Tel Hai
The Other Hand
Tradition
War crime
War memorial
Warfare
West Germany
World War I
World War II
Zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029252
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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. 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).
John R. Gillis is Professor of History at Rutgers University. His most recent book is A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values.
