ISBN: 9780691029252

ISBN-13: 9780691029252, 978-0691029252. The Politics of National Identity. Commemorations Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatch… More...

ISBN-13: 9780691029252, 978-0691029252. The Politics of National Identity. Commemorations Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).The Politics of National IdentityAuthor(s): John R. GillisFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Princeton University Press, United StatesImprint: Princeton University PressISBN-13: 9780691029252, 978-0691029252SynopsisMemory 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)., Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Artikelzustand: Neu, Book Title: Commemorations, EAN: 9780691029252, Publication Year: 1996, Type: Textbook, Language: English, Publication Name: Commemorations: the Politics of National Identity, Item Height: 254mm, Item Width: 197mm, Subject: History, Item Weight: 425g, Number of Pages: 304 Pages, Princeton University Press<

1996, ISBN: 0691029253

[EAN: 9780691029252], Neubuch, [PU: Princeton University Press], HISTORY / UNITED STATES 19TH CENTURY, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Memory is as central… More...

[EAN: 9780691029252], Neubuch, [PU: Princeton University Press], HISTORY / UNITED STATES 19TH CENTURY, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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). 304 pp. Englisch, Books<

1996, ISBN: 0691029253

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