Writing the History of Memory

• Author(s): Stefan Berger, Bill Niven,
• Publisher: A&C Black
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1849666741
  ISBN_13: 9781849666749
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Historiography , History / Social 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