(Re)visualizing national history : museums and national identities in Europe in the new millennium / edited by Robin Ostow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ostow, Robin.

Series:

German and European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Political aspects--Europe.

Museums.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums--Political aspects.

Europe--Politics and government.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Nationalism--Europe--History.

Nationalism.

History.

Museums--Social aspects--Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Revisualizing national history

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the Twenty-First Century / Robin Ostow 3

Part 1 The Twenty-First Century: New Exhibits and New Partnerships

1 Exhibition as Film / Mieke Bal 15

Part 2 Reconfiguring National History: Centralized and Local Strategies

2 The Terror of the House / Istvan Rev 47

3 Putting Contested History on Display: The Uses of the Past in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke 90

Part 3 Restoring National History with International Participation

4 Museums, Multiculturalism, and the Remaking of Postwar Sarajevo / Edin Hajdarpasic 109

5 Building a Jewish Museum in Germany in the Twenty-First Century / Bernhard Purin 139

6 Remusealizing Jewish History in Warsaw: The Privatization and Externalization of Nation Building / Robin Ostow 157

Part 4 Displaying War, Genocide, and the Nation: From Ottawa to Berlin, 2005

7 Constructing the Canadian War Museum/Constructing the Landscape of a Canadian Identity / Reesa Greenberg 183

8 Peter Eisenman's Design for Berlin's Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe: A Juror's Report in Three Parts / James E. Young 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802092212

0802092217

OCLC:

76939563