The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing

Beschreibung

Neuware -In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust). He follows with an analysis of the implications of this scholarship for our thinking about history itself, with attention to such issues as the mnemonics of historical time, and the encounter between representation and experience in historical understanding. His book provides insight into the way interest in the concept of memory - as opposed to long-standing alternatives, such as myth, tradition, and heritage- has opened new vistas for scholarship not only in cultural history but also in shared ventures in memory studies in related fields in the humanities and social sciences.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781349697373

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Titel

The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing

Verlag

Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jul 2018

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1349697370

ISBN-13

9781349697373

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

210B x 148 H x 14 T Millimeter Breite: 210 mm, Höhe: 148 mm, Tiefe: 14 mm

Gewicht

326 Gramm

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