The politics of memory in postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lebow, Richard Ned.

Kansteiner, Wulf.

Fogu, Claudio, 1963-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Europe.

World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Europe.

National characteristics, European.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).

Contents:

The memory of politics in postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow

From victim myth to co-responsibility thesis : Nazi rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian memory / Heidemarie Uhl

The legacy of World War II in France : mapping the discourses of memory / Richard J. Golsan

Losing the war, winning the memory battle : the legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wulf Kansteiner

Italiani brava gente : the legacy of fascist historical culture on Italian politics of memory / Claudio Fogu

New threads on an old loom : national memory and social identity in postwar and post-communist Poland / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska

What is so special about Switzerland? Wartime memory as a national ideology in the Cold War era / Regula Ludi

Past as present, myth, or history? Discourses of time and the great fatherland war / Thomas C. Wolfe

The politics of memory and the poetics of history / Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-354) and index.

ISBN:

0-8223-3802-5

OCLC:

317335834