Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691032009 ISBN 13: 9780691032009

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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, the connection between identity, heritage, and history, national memory in early modern England, commemoration in Cleveland, the museum and the politics of social control in modern Iraq and many other issues.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691032009
• ISBN 13: 9780691032009
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
• Herausgeber: Gillis John R.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar