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"No scholarly consensus exists about how the terms 'memory' and 'collective memory' may most fruitfully inform historical study. Hence there is still much room for reflection and clarification in this branch of cultural history. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which has left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. Thus this volume, which contains essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. Drawing on material from countries in Europe, and from Israel and the United States, the contributors have adopted a 'social agency' approach which highlights the behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, who feel they have a duty to remember, and who want to preserve a piece of the past."--Jacket.

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War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
2011, Cambridge University Press
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War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
2009, Cambridge University Press
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War and remembrance in the twentieth century
1999, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, U.K, New York
Series
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ;, 5

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909.82
Library of Congress
D421 .W36 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 260 p. ;
Number of pages
260

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL364619M
Internet Archive
warremembrancein0000unse
ISBN 10
0521640350
LCCN
98024909
OCLC/WorldCat
98024909, 39130691
LibraryThing
47185
Goodreads
5853335

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Work ID
OL18314411W

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