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  • The Sins of the Fathers

    Germany, Memory, Method

    by Jeffrey K. Olick ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over—the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying to move on and take action in the present. Yet ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • The Politics of Regret

    On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility

    by Jeffrey K. Olick ...
    In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world’s pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the Hangman (University of Chicago Press, 2005) has garnered a great deal of acclaim. This book collects his best essays on a range of memory related issues ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Regions of Memory

    Transnational Formations

    Edited by Simon Lewis, Jeffrey Olick, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Malgorzata Pakier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    “Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • States of Memory

    Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Fred C. Corney, Simonetta Falasca Zamponi ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies over time. Integrating theories of memory and nationalism with case studies, these essays stake a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Past

    On Repairing Historical Injustices

    by Elazar Barkan, Roy Brooks, Alan Cairns, William K. Carroll, Dalton Conley, Brenda Coughlin, Laura Hein, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Elizabeth Johnson, Sharon Lean, Charles S. Maier, Jeffrey Olick, Ruth Phillips, R S. Ratner, Henry Rousso, Stef Vandeginste, Andrew Woolford ...
    Series series World Social Change
    Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that "reparations politics" has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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