Memory and History Understanding Memory As Source and Subject

Name: Memory and History Understanding Memory As Source and Subject
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ISBN: 9780415677127

ISBN-10: 0415677122

ISBN-13: 9780415677127

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joan Tumblety

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How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other? Memory and History, explores the different aspects of the study of history and memory. Divided into three parts the book covers life-stories: gender, class, trauma and working with ‘memory’. Part Two focuses on ‘Collective memory’, memorialisation and commemoration. And lastly in Part Three from the individual to collective memory and the combination of the two. Each chapter looks at a set of key historical and historiographical questions through research-based case studies:How does engaging with ‘memory’ as either source or subject help to…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



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List of contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction: working with memory as source and subject




Working with oral testimony



'Let me tell you …': memory and the practice of oral history




Small fish, big pond: using a single oral history narrative to reveal broader social change




Memory, history and the law: testimony and collective memory in Holocaust and Stolen Generations trials




Memorialization and commemoration



Remembering and forgetting: the creation and destruction of inscribed monuments in Classical Athens




Visual cultures of memory in modern Japan: the historical uses of Japanese art collections




The contested memorial cultures of post-Liberation France: polemical responses to the legal purge of collaborators, 1944-c.1954




The pictures in the background: history, memory and photography in the museum




Between 'individual memory' and 'collective memory'



Memory as a battlefield: letters by traumatized German veterans and contested memories of the Great War




Memories of suburbia: autobiographical fiction and minority narratives




Alienated memories: migrants and the silences of the archive




Biography of a box: material culture and palimpsest memory



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