Nigel Young

Postnational Memory, Peace and War

Making Pasts Beyond Borders

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780367110970
• ISBN-10: 0367110970
• Artikelnr.: 58438087

Autorenporträt

Nigel Young is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Research Professor in Peace Studies at Colgate University, USA. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace and co-editor of Campaigns for Peace: The British Peace Movement in the 20th Century. He is the author of Nation State and War Resistance, On War, National Liberation and The State , and An Infantile Disorder? The Crisis and Decline of the New Left, and the co-author of Pacifism in the 20th Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Memory and Counter-Memory Prologue Vignette: Being There - A
Cotswold Vignette (Adlestrop) Introduction: Defining Modern Memory
Vignette: Kennington At Laventie 1. A Memorable Engagement -The War to End
War - and its Legacy (inc. Vignette: 'Bradford Pals') 2. The Great Sunk
Silences: The Nature of Forgetting and the Unbearable Pain of Recall 3.
Memory's New Voice 4. Generations of Memory: War Booms and Memory Booms 5.
Strange Meetings and Cosmopolitan Sympathies (inc. Vignette: Eugen
Gehweiler, Vignette: 'An Espresso Moment') Part 2: Against Forgetting -
Retrieving a Borderless Past 6. Memory after the "Shoah" (inc. Vignette:
Being There: Poland: 1988, 1996) 7. Airwar and Memory (inc. Vignette: A
Silence, Vignette: 'Bambi'; 'Belsen and Memory of the Camps') Part 3:
Re-Writing Memory 8. Beyond Amnesia: Breaking Silences (inc. Vignette:
Benicàssim - Raising the Ghosts of Castillon De La Plana) 9. Testimony of
Place (inc. Vignette: Walking the Fields of Memory: Germany 1994, France
and Flanders (1988 and 1992)) 10. Beyond Militarism? Peace and War in Civil
Memory (inc. Vignette: Oh! What a Lovely War! Vignette: A Mass of Memoried
Flowers - Poppies and Ploughboys)11. Postnational Memory and National
Conflict: Remembrance in a Globalising Society Part 4: Towards a History of
Modern Memory 12. Towards a History of Modern Memory I: The Work of the
Precursors 13. Towards a History of Modern Memory II: A Memory-Work
Timeline 14. The Past in the Present- Metamorphosen (inc. Vignette: Yevgeny
Khaldei - The Malleability of Memory and the Reichstag Photo, 1945)