Sites of imperial memory : commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Frank Lorenz, 1970- editor.

Geppert, Dominik, 1970- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England).

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Collective memory.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

MSI edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Europe's great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial rule, and they are still vibrant and evocative today. This volume brings together a collection of innovative and fresh studies exploring different sites of imperial memory - those conceptual and real places where the memories of former colonial rulers and of former colonial subjects have crystallised into

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Founding editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Beyond national memory. Nora's Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world; PART I Monuments; 2 Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery; 3 Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon; 4 The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history

5 Heroes, victims and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan's post-imperial commemoraPART II Heroes and villains; 6 From the penny press to the plinth: British and French 'heroic imperialists' as sites of memory; 7 Jan Pietersz Coen: a man they love to hate. The first Governor General of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial ; 8 The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain; 9 David Livingstone, British Protestant missions, memory and empire; 10 Freedom fighter and anti-Tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia

PART III Remembering and forgetting11 From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the Raj in post-war India; 12 'Forgive and forget'? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory; 13 Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin; 14 Recollections of rubber; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526111883

1526111888

9781526111890

1526111896

OCLC:

981546297