| Description |
1 online resource (372 pages) |
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Studies in contemporary European history ; 6 |
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Studies in contemporary European history ; 6.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I -- Europe, Memory, Politics and History; Section 1 -- Normative Perspectives and Lines of Division of European Memory Constructions; Chapter 1 -- On 'European Memory'; Chapter 2 -- The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanisation; Chapter 3 -- Halecki Revisited; Chapter 4 -- Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons; Section 2 -- Towards a Fluid Conceptualisation of Memory Constructs; Chapter 5 -- Culture, Politics, Palimpsest |
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Chapter 6 -- Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of RemembranceChapter 7 -- Seeing Dark and Writing Light; Part II -- Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts; Section 3 -- Remembering the Second World War; Chapter 8 -- Remembering the Second World War in Western Europea, 1945-2005; Chapter 9 -- Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance; Chapter 10 -- A Victory Celebrated; Section 4 -- Towards a Europeanisation of the Commemoration of the Holocaust; Chapter 11 -- Remembering Eu |
| Summary |
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europewith a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differenceswas overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Europe
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Collective memory.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Collective memory
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Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History -- Philosophy
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Strth, Bo
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| LC no. |
2009025366 |
| ISBN |
9781845458133 |
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1845458133 |
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9781306055680 |
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1306055687 |
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