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 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. -- .
By:
Geoffrey Cubitt Series edited by:
Geoffrey Cubitt Other:
Rebecca Mortimer Imprint: Manchester University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 322g ISBN:9780719060786 ISBN 10: 0719060788 Series:Historical Approaches Pages: 272 Publication Date:01 November 2007 Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Chapter 1: History and memory: an imagined relationship Chapter 2: History and the individual Chapter 3: Remembering in society Chapter 4: Memory and transmission Chapter 5: Social memory and the collective past -- .
Geoffrey Cubitt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York