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History and Memory
Contributor(s): Cubitt, Geoffrey (Author)
ISBN: 0719060788     ISBN-13: 9780719060786
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2007
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Annotation: In recent years, "memory" has become a central and controversial concept in historical studies. It is a term that denotes a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a more general field of inquiry. This book provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and theories about memory and approaches to the study of it in history and other disciplines. The book explores the relationships between the individual and the collective, between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, between remembering as a subjective experience and as a social or cultural practice, and between memory and history as modes of retrospective knowledge.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Social History
Dewey: 901
Series: Historical Approaches
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages
 
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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 disciplines
Contributing 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 subjective experience and as a social or cultural practice, and between memory and history as modes of retrospective knowledge.