Sites of Imperial Memory

Commemorating Colonial Rule in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Herausgeber: Geppert, Dominik; Muller, Frank

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Produktbeschreibung

Europe's great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial rule, and they are still vibrant and evocative today. This volume brings together a collection of innovative and fresh studies exploring different sites of imperial memory - those conceptual and real places where the memories of former colonial rulers and of former colonial subjects have crystallised into a lasting form. The volume explores how memory was built up, re-shaped and preserved across different empires, continents and centuries. It shows how it found concrete expression in stone and bronze, how it adhered to the stories that were told and retold about great individuals and how it was suppressed, denied and neglected. Using the seminal concept of the lieu de mémoire established by the French historian Pierre Nora, this volume introduces the reader to some of the most striking boulders that lie strewn across the vast landscape of imperial and post-imperial memory. With case studies taken from the British, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Habsburg and Russian empires and examples of memory sites ranging from monuments and photographs to missionaries, conquerors, war criminals and botanists, Sites of imperial memory provides a fascinating, varied and truly global introduction to a topic of lasting historical and political importance. The book will be of great interest to anyone studying the legacies of empire and the importance of memory as a historical force.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090813
• ISBN-10: 0719090814
• Artikelnr.: 42379578

Autorenporträt

Dominik Geppert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bonn Frank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beyond national memory. Nora's Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world
- Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller PART I: Monuments 2.
Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the
metropole and periphery - Xavier Guégan 3. Politics, caste and the
remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon - Shraddha Kumbhojkar 4.
The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history - James
Koranyi 5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the
contradictions of Japan's post-imperial commemoration - Barak Kushner PART
II: Heroes and villains 6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and
French 'heroic imperialists' as sites of memory - Berny Sèbe 7. Jan
Pieterszoon Coen: a man they love to hate. The first governor-general of
the Dutch East Indies as an imperial site of memory - Victor Enthoven 8.
The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain -
Richard Goebelt 9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory
and empire - John Stuart 10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam
Shamil and imperial memory in Russia - Stefan Creuzberger PART III:
Remembering and forgetting 11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes:
the memory of the raj in post-war India - Maria Misra 12. 'Forgive and
forget'? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory - Winfried
Speitkamp 13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin - Katja Kaiser 14. Recollections
of rubber - Frank Uekötter Select bibliography Index