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The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing. How the Interest in Memory Has Influenced Our Understanding of History.
Patrick H. . Ed(S): Hutton
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Hardback. Editor(s): Hutton, Patrick H. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust). He follows with an analysis of the implications of this scholarship for our ... Read more
In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust). He follows with an analysis of the implications of this scholarship for our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137494641
SKU
V9781137494641
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99-15
About Patrick H. . Ed(S): Hutton
Patrick Hutton is Professor Emeritus of History in the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Vermont, USA.
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