Jan-Werner Müller (ed.)

Memory and Power in Post-War Europe

Studies in the Presence of the Past
Herausgeber: M. Ller, Jan-Werner; Muller, Jan-Werner

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780521000703
• ISBN-10: 052100070X
• Artikelnr.: 22112781

Autorenporträt

JAN-WERNER MÜLLER is a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The power of memory, the memory of power and the power over
memory Jan-Werner Müller; Part I. Myth, Memory and Analogy in Foreign
Policy: 1. Memory of sovereignty and sovereignty over memory; Poland,
Lithuania and Ukraine since 1939 Tim Snyder; 2. Myth, memory and policy in
France since 1945 Robert Gildea; 3. The power of memory and memories of
power: the cultural parameters of German foreign policy making since 1945
Thomas U. Berger; 4. The past in the present: British Imperial memories and
the European Question Anne Deighton; 5. Memory, the media and NATO:
information intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina Monroe E. Price; 6. Europe's
post-Cold War memory of Russia Iver B. Neumann; Part II. Memory, Power and
Justice in Domestic Affairs: 7. The past is another country: myth and
memory in postwar Europe Tony Judt; 8. The emergence and legacies of
divided memory: Germany and the Holocaust after 1945 Jeffrey Herf; 9.
Unimagined communities: the power of memory and the conflict in the former
Yugoslavia Ilana R. Bet-El; 10. Translating memories of war and
co-belligerency into Cold War politics: the Italian case Ilaria Poggiolini;
11. Institutionalizing the past: shifting memories of nationhood in German
education and immigration policies Daniel Levy and Julian Dierkes; 12.
Trials, purges or history lessons: treating a difficult past in
post-communist Europe Timothy Garton Ash.