Memorylands

Memorylands: heritage and identity in Europe today

by Macdonald, Sharon

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'Memorylands' investigates the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It addresses the ongoing apparent 'memory obsession' evident in a proliferation of museums, heritage sites and memorials, and arguments about the changing nature of identities - especially national, European and global.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Memorylands : heritage and identity in Europe today / Sharon Macdonald.

Summary

'Memorylands' investigates the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It addresses the ongoing apparent 'memory obsession' evident in a proliferation of museums, heritage sites and memorials, and arguments about the changing nature of identities - especially national, European and global.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xiv, 293 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780415453332, 041545333X, 9780415453349, 0415453348
  • oclc:ocn311756949
  • LC Classification:D1053
  • Dewey Decimal:306.094

Table of Contents

Prologue -- The European Memory Complex : An Introduction -- Making Histories : Europe, Tradition and Other Present Pasts -- Telling the Past : The Multitemporal Challenge -- Feeling the Past : Materiality, Embodiment and Place -- Selling the Past : Commodification, Authenticity and Heritage -- Musealization : Everyday Life, Temporality and Old Things -- Transcultural Heritage : Reconfiguring Identities and the Public Sphere -- Cosmopolitan Memory : Holocaust Commemoration and National Identity -- The Future of Memory -- and Forgetting.

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Subjects

Collective memory Collective memory -- Europe Cultural policy Cultural property -- Social aspects Cultural property -- Social aspects -- … Culture matérielle -- Europe Europa Europe Europe -- Cultural policy Europe -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1945- Europe -- Politique culturelle Europe -- Social life and customs -- 19… Group identity Group identity -- Europe Gruppenidentität Gruppidentitet Identité collective -- Europe Kollektives Gedächtnis Kollektivt minne -- sociala aspekter Kulturarv -- sociala aspekter

Writers

Macdonald, Sharon

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