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The Memory of the Modern (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R5,044
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The Memory of the Modern (Hardcover, New): Matt K. Matsuda

The Memory of the Modern (Hardcover, New)

Matt K. Matsuda

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Memory has a history. The Classical world ordered and valued events differently than the Medieval world; which, in turn, was replaced by "the memory" of the Renaissance. Matt Matsuda's compelling, multidisciplinary argument in The Memory of the Modern is that the understanding, value, and uses of memory changed yet again at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, becoming distinctively "modern". Matsuda proves his argument by visiting a remarkable array of "memory-sites": the destruction of a monument to Napoleon during the 1871 Paris Commune; the frantic selling of futures on the Paris stock-exchange; the state's forensic search for a vagabond rapist and murderer; a child's perjured testimony on the witness stand; a scientist's dissecting of the human brain; the invention of cameras and the cinema. Each chapter studies a distinct moment when new representations of the past were forged, contested, and put to cultural and ideological use. And all these diverse events cohere as Matsuda repeatedly shows which "memories" were celebrated and which forgotten, which traditions invented and appropriated and which discarded. More importantly, he explains why, and in doing so answers the broader question, Who controls what is remembered and who is believed?

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 1996
First published: May 1996
Authors: Matt K. Matsuda (Assistant Professor of History)
Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 262
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509364-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
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LSN: 0-19-509364-X
Barcode: 9780195093643

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