Guy Beiner

Gebundenes Buch

Forgetful Remembrance

Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster

Beschreibung

Forgetful Remembrance offers a new approach to the study of memory by focusing on vernacular historiographies and the notion of forgetting. Using the 1798 Irish Rebellion, Beiner explores how communities try to obscure inconvenient and uncomfortable events from the past.

Autor

Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He specializes in the study of remembering and forgetting, with a particular interest in the history of Ireland. He was a Government of Ireland scholar at University College Dublin, a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary scholar at the Central European University, and a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of the multi-prize-winning book, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1293g
• ISBN-13: 9780198749356
• ISBN-10: 019874935X
• Artikelnr.: 52822141