A Cultural History of Memory: Volumes 1-6

by Stefan Berger (Editor), Jeffrey K. Olick (Editor)

Overview

Examines 2,500 years of memory from a variety of perspectives in social and cultural history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350408654
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/08/2024
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series
Product dimensions:	6.95(w) x 10.05(h) x 2.90(d)

About the Author

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury's successful student book series, Writing History.

Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and History Chair at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949 (2005) and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007). He is also the editor of States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (2003).

Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
Edited by Susan E. Alcock (Brown University, USA)
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages
Edited by Gerald Schwedler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona, Italy)
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Patrick Hutton (University of Vermont, USA)
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Susan A. Crane (University of Arizona, USA)
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century
Edited by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Editorial Reviews

"Much could be said about any of the books in this landmark series, whose sum total of chapters from the world’s leading scholars will be read and referenced for generations … Delighting in every memory-inspired flight, fanciful or real, examined in these books awaits the studious reader." — Sun News Tucson

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