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States of memory : continuities, conflicts, and transformations in national retrospection / edited by Jeffrey K. Olick.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- History--Psychological aspects.
- History.
- Nationalism--Psychological aspects.
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A journal into book collection on national memory focusing on commemorations, collective apologies, and historical revisions, now enhanced by the addition of 6 essays by senior, historical sociologists.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Jeffrey K. Olick
- Rethinking a great event : the October Revolution as memory project / Fred C. Corney
- Of storytellers and master narratives : modernity, memory, and history in fascist Italy / Simonetta Falasca Zamponi
- Idols of the emperor / Matt K. Matsuda
- Confucius and the cultural revolution : a study in collective memory / Tong Zhang and Barry Schwartz
- Institutional legacies and collective memories : the case of the Spanish transition to democracy / Paloma Aguilar
- When do collective memories last? : founding moments in the United States and Australia / Lyn Spillman
- Legacies and liabilities of an insurgent past : remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. on the House and Senate floor / Francesca Polletta
- Postnationalist pasts : the case of Israel / Uri Ram
- What does it mean to normalize the past? : official memory in German politics since 1989 / Jeffrey K. Olick
- "End" of the postwar : Japan at the turn of the millennium / Carol Gluck
- Calendars and history : a comparative study of the social organization of national memory / Eviatar Zerubavel
- Afterword : Borges and brass / Charles Tilly.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-92068-5
- 9786612920684
- 0-8223-8468-X
- OCLC:
- 850218837
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