A European memory? : contested histories and politics of remembrance / edited by Magorzata Pakier and Bo Strath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pakier, Magorzata, 1979-

Stråth, Bo, 1943-

Series:

Studies in contemporary European history ; 6.

Studies in contemporary European history ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Europe--History--Philosophy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 356 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe-with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences-was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I - Europe, Memory, Politics and History; Section 1 - Normative Perspectives and Lines of Division of European Memory Constructions; Chapter 1 - On 'European Memory'; Chapter 2 - The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanisation; Chapter 3 - Halecki Revisited; Chapter 4 - Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons; Section 2 - Towards a Fluid Conceptualisation of Memory Constructs; Chapter 5 - Culture, Politics, Palimpsest

Chapter 6 - Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of RemembranceChapter 7 - Seeing Dark and Writing Light; Part II - Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts; Section 3 - Remembering the Second World War; Chapter 8 - Remembering the Second World War in Western Europea, 1945-2005; Chapter 9 - Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance; Chapter 10 - A Victory Celebrated; Section 4 - Towards a Europeanisation of the Commemoration of the Holocaust; Chapter 11 - Remembering Europe's Heart of Darkness

Chapter 12 - Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland After 1989Chapter 13 - A Europeanisation of the Holocaust Memory?; Chapter 14 - Italian Commemoration of the Shoah; Section 5 - Coming to Terms with Europe's Communist Past; Chapter 15 - Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States; Chapter 16 - Eurocommunism; Chapter 17 - The Memory of the Dead Body; Chapter 18 - Neither Help nor Pardon?; Section 6 - Coming to Terms with Europe's Colonial Past

Chapter 19 - Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism and the ALgerian War of Independence in FranceChapter 20 - Memory Politics and the Use of History; Conclusion; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-999-4

0-85745-605-9

1-84545-813-3

OCLC:

645100783