Balkan conflicts
catastrophe
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English Civil Wars
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Great Irish Famine
memory
trauma
Product details
- ISBN 9780719063459
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2004
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war, but also of massacre, genocide, rebellion, famine, partition, shipwreck and fire. The book is an accessible showcase for a wide range of methodological approaches to the study of memory, including literary studies, cultural studies, participant-observation and historical studies, and uses a variety of oral, visual and written sources. Offers a diverse chronological and geographical range of catastrophic cases, from seventeenth-century England to the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, from Ireland to the Indian sub-continent, from Mexico to wartime Leningrad. Well-written and accessible – a fascinating read.
Peter Gray is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton. Kendrick Oliver is a Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Southampton
