Memory and power in post-war Europe : studies in the presence of the past / edited by Jan-Werner Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Jan-Werner, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Social aspects--Europe.

Memory.

Political culture--Europe.

Political culture.

Historiography--Europe.

Historiography.

Memorials--Europe.

Memorials.

Europe--History--1945-.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Memory & Power in Post-War Europe

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have 'historical lessons' been applied in foreign policy? While there is now a burgeoning field of social and cultural memory studies, mostly focused on commemorations and monuments, this volume is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. It investigates how memory is officially recast, personally reworked and often violently re-instilled after wars, and, above all, the ways memory shapes present power constellations. The chapters combine theoretical innovation in their approach to the study of memory with deeply historical, empirically based case studies of major European countries. The volume concludes with reflections on the ethics of memory, and the politics of truth, justice and forgetting after 1945 and 1989.

Contents:

Introduction : the power of memory, the memory of power and the power over memory / Jan-Werner Müller

Memory of sovereignty and sovereignty over memory : Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, 1939-1999 / Timothy Snyder

Myth, memory and policy in France since 1945 / Robert Gildea

The power of memory and memories of power : the cultural parameters of German foreign policy-making since 1945 / Thomas Berger

The past in the present : British imperial memories and the European question / Anne Deighton

Europe's post-Cold War remembrance of Russia : cui bono? / Iver B. Neumann

Memory, the media and NATO : information intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina / Monroe E. Price

The past is another country : myth and memory in post-war Europe / Tony Judt

The emergence and legacies of divided memory : Germany and the Holocaust after 1945 / Jeffrey Herf

Unimagined communities : the power of memory and the conflict in the former Yugoslavia / Ilana R. Bet-El

Translating memories of war and co-belligerency into politics : the Italian post-war experience / Ilaria Poggiolini

Institutionalising the past : shifting memories of nationhood in German education and immigration legislation / Daniel Levy and Julian B. Dierkes

Trials, purges and history lessons : treating a difficult past in post-communist Europe / Timothy Garton Ash.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13111-1

1-280-43348-5

0-511-17826-3

0-511-04172-1

0-511-14872-0

0-511-49158-1

0-511-33049-9

0-511-04408-9

OCLC:

70742639