Writing the History of Memory - Stefan Berger & Bill Niven

Writing the History of Memory

By Stefan Berger & Bill Niven

  • Release Date: 2014-02-13
  • Genre: History

Description

How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history.

This book includes:

- Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches
- Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral history and generational and collective memory
- Two key case studies on Holocaust memorialisation and the memory of Communism