This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth
century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of
memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War.
Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the
two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of
war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and
remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of
collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter
says.
The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in
memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked
history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth
century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"--film,
television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is
seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes
with reflections on the significance of these practices for the
cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.
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