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Author Cubitt, Geoffrey, author.

Title History and memory / Geoffrey Cubitt
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages)
Series Historical approaches
Historical approaches.
Contents 9780719060779; 9780719060779; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 HISTORY AND MEMORY:AN IMAGINED RELATIONSHIP; 2 MEMORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL; 3 REMEMBERING IN SOCIETY; 4 MEMORY AND TRANSMISSION; 5 SOCIAL MEMORY ANDTHE COLLECTIVE PAST; INDEX
Summary 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 conceptu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes All rights reserved
Online resource; title from digitaltitle page (ACLS, viewed November, 21, 2022)
In ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject Memory.
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Memory
Erinnerung
Geschichtsdenken
Historiefilosofi.
Minnet -- Filosofi.
Kollektivt minne.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781847791382
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9781847798893
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