Commemorations (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of National Identity
Redaktion: Gillis, John R.

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Produktbeschreibung

Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose sight of the recent origins and diverse meanings of these uniquely modern phenomena. In this volume, leading historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers explore the relationship between collective memory and national identity in diverse cultures throughout history. Placing commemorations in their historical settings, the contributors disclose the contested nature of these monuments by showing how groups and individuals struggle to shape the past to their own ends.

The volume is introduced by John Gillis's broad overview of the development of public memory in relation to the history of the nation-state. Other contributions address the usefulness of identity as a cross-cultural concept (Richard Handler), the connection between identity, heritage, and history (David Lowenthal), national memory in early modern England (David Cressy), commemoration in Cleveland (John Bodnar), the museum and the politics of social control in modern Iraq (Eric Davis), invented tradition and collective memory in Israel (Yael Zerubavel), black emancipation and the civil war monument (Kirk Savage), memory and naming in the Great War (Thomas Laqueur), American commemoration of World War I (Kurt Piehler), art, commerce, and the production of memory in France after World War I (Daniel Sherman), historic preservation in twentieth-century Germany (Rudy Koshar), the struggle over French identity in the early twentieth century (Herman Lebovics), and the commemoration of concentration camps in the new Germany (Claudia Koonz).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691186658
• Artikelnr.: 52920108

Autorenporträt

John R. Gillis is Professor of History at Rutgers University. His most recent book is A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship
3
Ch. I
Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept?
27
Ch. II
Identity, Heritage, and History
41
Ch. III
National Memory in Early Modern England
61
Ch. IV
Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland
74
Ch. V
The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq
90
Ch. VI
The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition
and Collective Memory in Israel
105
Ch. VII
The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War
Monument
127
Ch. VIII
Memory and Naming in the Great War
150
Ch. IX
The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First
World War
168
Ch. X
Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World
War I
186
Ch. XI
Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in
Twentieth-Century Germany
215
Ch. XII
Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in
the First Half of the Twentieth Century
239
Ch. XIII
Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory
258
Index
281