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Memory and History - Understanding Memory as Source and Subject (Paperback, New)
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Memory and History - Understanding Memory as Source and Subject (Paperback, New)
Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
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How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use
different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and
impact on each other? Memory and History explores the different
aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe,
Australia, the USA and Japan and treating periods beyond living
memory as well as the recent past, the volume highlights the
contours of the current vogue for memory among historians while
demonstrating the diversity and imagination of the field. Each
chapter looks at a set of key historical and historiographical
questions through research-based case studies: How does engaging
with memory as either source or subject help to illuminate the
past? What are the theoretical, ethical and/or methodological
challenges that are encountered by historians engaging with memory
in this way, and how might they be managed? How can the reading of
a particular set of sources illuminate both of these questions? The
chapters cover a diverse range of approaches and subjects including
oral history, memorialization and commemoration, visual cultures
and photography, autobiographical fiction, material culture, ethnic
relations, the individual and collective memories of war veterans.
The chapters collectively address a wide range of primary source
material beyond oral testimony - photography, monuments, memoir and
autobiographical writing, fiction, art and woodcuttings, 'everyday'
and 'exotic' cultural artefacts, journalism, political polemic, the
law and witness testimony. This book will be essential reading for
students of history and memory, providing an accessible guide to
the historical study of memory through a focus on varied source
materials.
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