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History and Memory (Historical Approaches) Book
In recent years, ‘memory’ has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally. This book, which is aimed both at specialists and at students, provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and theories about memory, and to the range of approaches that have been taken to the study of it in history and other disciplinesContributing in a wide-ranging way to debate on some of the central conceptual problems of memory studies, the book explores the relationships between the individual and the collective, between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, between remembering as a … read more...subjective experience and as a social or cultural practice, and between memory and history as modes of retrospective knowledge.Read More read less...
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Waterstones
Designed to have an appeal both to specialists already immersed in debates on history and memory and to those seeking an introduction to the field. This title bridges the gap between the idea of memory as a property of individual consciousness and me
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Blackwell
Supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline. In recent years, 'memory' has become a...
- 0719060788
- 9780719060786
- Geoffrey Cubitt
- 1 November 2007
- Manchester University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 272
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