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Grote's History of Greece is one of the classic works of historical
interpretation and scholarship. George Grote - banker, MP and a
founder of London University - was the first historian to give a
high value to the Greek creation of democracy, and this aspect of
his work is closely relevant to current debates about democracy in
our times. This abridgement of the original twelve volume work,
which was made in the early years of the century and published by
George Routledge and sons, is now available again and makes
accessible the essential Grote. In a new and original introduction,
based on the latest research into Grote and into Greek history,
Paul Cartledge places Grote's history in its intellectual context,
discusses its salient features and traces its subsequent reception
over the past century and a half.
'George Grote was one of the most remarkable minds of the early Victorian age Routledge's reissue prefaced with an illuminating new introduction by Paul Cartledge, provides the best chance that there is likely to be of bringing him to a modern readership.' - Richard Jenkins, London Review of Books
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Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on
the German past. Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom
in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in
novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public discourse
that engage with the long-term effects of National Socialism across
generations. Taking issue with the concept of
"Vergangenheitsbewaltigung," or coming to terms with the Nazi past,
which after 1945 guided nearly all debate on the topic, the
contributors to this volume view contemporary German culture
through the more dynamic concept of "memory contests," which sees
all forms of memory, public or private, as ongoing processes of
negotiating identity in the present. Touching on gender,
generations, memory and postmemory, trauma theory, ethnicity,
historiography, and family narrative, the contributions offer a
comprehensive picture of current German memory debates, in so doing
shedding light on the struggle to construct a Germanidentity
mindful of but not wholly defined by the horrors of National
Socialism and the Holocaust. Contributors: Peter Fritzsche, Anne
Fuchs, Elizabeth Boa, Stefan Willer, Chloe E. M. Paver, Matthias
Fiedler, J. J. Long, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Cathy S. Gelbin, Jennifer
E. Michaels, Mary Cosgrove, Andrew Plowman, Roger Woods. Anne Fuchs
is Professor of Modern German literature and Georg Grote is
Lecturer in German history, both at University College Dublin. Mary
Cosgrove is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.
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