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Commemorations : the politics of national identity / edited by John R. Gillis.

By: Gillis, John R
Language: English Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.Description: xii, 290p. : ill., photos ; 24cm.ISBN: 0691032009
Contents:
Contents: Memory and identity: the history of a relationship / J.R. Gillis; Is identity a useful cross-cultural concept? / R. Handler; Identity, heritage and history / D. Lowenthal; National memory in early modern England / S. Cressy; Public memory in an American city: commemoration in Cleveland / J. Bodnar; The museums and the politics of social control in modern Iraq / E. Davis; The historic, the legendary and the incredible: invented tradition and collective memory in Israel / Y. Zerubavel; The politics of memory: black emancipation and the Civil War Monument / Kirk Savage; Memory and naming in the Great War / T.W. Laqueur; The war dead and the gold star: american commemoration of the First War World / G.K. Piehler; Art, commerce and the production of memory in France after World War I / D.J. Sherman; Building pasts: historic preservation and identity in 20th century Germany / R.J. Koshar; Creating the authentic France: struggles over French identity in the first half of the 20th century / H. Lebovics; Between memory and oblivion: concentration camps in German memory / C. Koonz.
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Book Book British Museum
Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KDJ [GIL-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L65333

Includes bibls.

Contents: Memory and identity: the history of a relationship / J.R. Gillis; Is identity a useful cross-cultural concept? / R. Handler; Identity, heritage and history / D. Lowenthal; National memory in early modern England / S. Cressy; Public memory in an American city: commemoration in Cleveland / J. Bodnar; The museums and the politics of social control in modern Iraq / E. Davis; The historic, the legendary and the incredible: invented tradition and collective memory in Israel / Y. Zerubavel; The politics of memory: black emancipation and the Civil War Monument / Kirk Savage; Memory and naming in the Great War / T.W. Laqueur; The war dead and the gold star: american commemoration of the First War World / G.K. Piehler; Art, commerce and the production of memory in France after World War I / D.J. Sherman; Building pasts: historic preservation and identity in 20th century Germany / R.J. Koshar; Creating the authentic France: struggles over French identity in the first half of the 20th century / H. Lebovics; Between memory and oblivion: concentration camps in German memory / C. Koonz.