Memorylands

Memorylands: heritage and identity in Europe today

by Macdonald, Sharon

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Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a 'memoryland' - littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this 'memory phenomenon' is related to the changing nature of identities - especially European, national and cosmopolitan. In doing so, it provides new insights into how memory and the past are being perfo…

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Title Statements

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

Summary

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a 'memoryland' - littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this 'memory phenomenon' is related to the changing nature of identities - especially European, national and cosmopolitan. In doing so, it provides new insights into how memory and the past are being performed and reconfigured in Europe - and with what effects. Drawing especially, thoug.

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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:1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781135628727, 1135628726, 1299726461, 9781299726468, 9780203553336, 0203553330, 9781135628864, 1135628866, 9781135628796, 1135628793
  • oclc:ocn853240855
  • 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 Culture matérielle -- Europe Europe Europe -- Cultural policy Europe -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1945- Europe -- Politique culturelle Europe -- Social life and customs -- 19… Group identity Group identity -- Europe Identité collective -- Europe Manners and customs Material culture Material culture -- Europe Mémoire collective -- Europe Memory -- Social aspects Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe Musées -- Aspect social -- Europe

Writers

Macdonald, Sharon

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