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Memory and Nation Building - From Ancient Times to the Islamic State (Paperback)
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Memory and Nation Building - From Ancient Times to the Islamic State (Paperback)
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Memory and Nation Building addresses the complex topic of
collective memory, first described by sociologist Maurice Halbwachs
in the first half of the 20th century. Author Michael Galaty argues
that the first states appropriated traditional collective memory
systems in order to form. With this in mind, he compares three
Mediterranean societies - Egypt, Greece, and Albania - each of
which experienced very different trajectories of state formation.
Galaty attributes these differences to varying responses to
collective memory in all three places through time, with climaxes
in the Ottoman period, during which all three were under Ottoman
control. Egypt was characterized by deeply meaningful memory tropes
concerning national unity, which spanned all of Egyptian history,
while Greece experienced memory fragmentation, a condition
exacerbated by periods of imperial conquest. Albania adapted and
assimilated when faced with foreign domination, such that an
indigenous Albanian state did not form until 1912. Galaty builds a
diachronic model of state formation and its relationship to memory
and political control. Memory and Nation Building culminates in an
analysis of modern collective memory systems and resistance to
those systems, which are often framed as conflicts over "heritage".
The formation and eventual fall of the short-lived Islamic State
serves as an example of extreme memory work, with lessons for other
modern nations.
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