"As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory
concept for a broad assessment of the dark legacies of Nazism,
Communism, and World War II for a common European identity, the
volume has no equal. It overwhelms the reader with a plethora of
both new and well established information and reflection...The
overall direction coincides with the current trend towards
internationalization of national histories. It can be considered a
strong contribution to this important and worthwhile trend." Frank
Trommler, University of Pennsylvania
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in
order to better understand why the grand design of a United
Europe-with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity
to allow for cultural and social differences-was overwhelmingly
turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection
of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to
the current historical grounding used for further integration and
further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European
bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of
Europe's past. A critical European history is therefore urgently
needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious
continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both
within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show,
these dark shadows of Europe's past must be integrated, and the
fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any
new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.
Ma gorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at the Institute of
Sociology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and is
also active in planning the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
She received her PhD from the European University Institute in
Florence, Department of History and Civilization. Her research
interests include the media of memory, especially film, museum, and
city spaces, and Holocaust memory and representation.
Bo Strath was Professor of Contemporary History at the European
University Institute in Florence (1997-2007) and is currently
Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor of Nordic, European and
World History at Helsinki University. His research concentrates on
questions of modernity and the use of history in a European and
global perspective.
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