In Imagining a Nation, Ruramisai Charumbira analyzes competing narratives of the founding of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe constructed by political and cultural nationalists both black and white since occupation in 1890. The book uses a wide array of sources--including archives, oral histor…
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"This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day. Chapters cover the main forces on the day of battle, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France and Germany. In addition, a chapter on Russian memory of the invasion e…
Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. This book examines the commonalities and differences in national collective memories of D-Day.
The book explains how contemporary Holocaust remembrance practices in Eastern Europe are used to deal with various state insecurities, and not remember the Holocaust"
Global Easts: remembering, imagining, mobilizing
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"This book is the culmination of South Korean historian of collective memory Jie-Hyun Lim's exploration of the global connections in the discourse on colonialism, war, and genocide since World War II. From Poland to Germany to Korea, Lim traces the relationship between victimiza…
Global Easts: remembering, imagining, mobilizing
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Type: Book
"This book is the culmination of South Korean historian of collective memory Jie-Hyun Lim's exploration of the global connections in the discourse on colonialism, war, and genocide since World War II. From Poland to Germany to Korea, Lim traces the relationship between victimiza…
Although radically different, the Vietnam War, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School shootings, and the attacks of 9/11 all shattered myths of national identity. Vietnam was a war the United States didn't win; Oklahoma City revealed domestic terrorism in the heart…
