Commemorations The Politics of National Identity

Name: Commemorations The Politics of National Identity
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ISBN: 9780691029252

ISBN-10: 0691029253

ISBN-13: 9780691029252

Edition: 1994

Authors: John R. Gillis

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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…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/6/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

John R. Gillis is the author of Islands of the Mind; A World of Their Own Making: Myth Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values; and Commemorations. A professor of history emeritus at Rutgers University, he now divides his time between two coasts: Northern California and Maine.



Acknowledgments


Notes on Contributors


Introduction: Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship




The Problem of Identity and Memory



Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept?




Identity, Heritage, and History




Memory in the Construction of National Identities



National Memory in Early Modern England




Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland




The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq




The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel




Memories of War and Wars over Memory



The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument




Memory and Naming in the Great War




The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War




Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I




Politics of Memory and Identity



Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany




Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century




Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory



Index