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

Is "identity" a useful cross-cultural concept? / Richard Handler -- Identity, heritage, and history / David Lowenthal -- National memory in early modern England / David Cressy -- Public memory in an American city : commemoration in Cleveland / John Bodnar -- The museum and the politics of...

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Weitere Verfasser:Gillis, John R. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht:Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 1994
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Is "identity" a useful cross-cultural concept? / Richard Handler
Identity, heritage, and history / David Lowenthal
National memory in early modern England / David Cressy
Public memory in an American city : commemoration in Cleveland / John Bodnar
The museum and the politics of social control in modern Iraq / Eric Davis
The historic, the legendary, and the incredible : invented tradition and collective memory in Israel / Yael Zerubavel
The politics of memory : Black emancipation and the Civil War monument / Kirk Savage
Memory and naming in the Great War / Thomas W. Laqueur
The war dead and the Gold Star : American commemoration of the First World War / G. Kurt Piehler
Art, commerce, and the production of memory in France after World War I / Daniel J. Sherman
Building pasts : historic preservation and identity in twentieth-century Germany / Rudy J. Koshar
Creating the authentic France : struggles over French identity in the first half of the twentieth century / Herman Lebovics
Between memory and oblivion : concentration camps in German memory / Claudia Koonz.