History and Memory

In recent years, 'memory' has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally. This book, which is aimed both at specialists and at students, provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and theories about memory, and to the range of approaches that have been taken to the study of it in history and other disciplines Contributing in a wide-ranging way to debate on some of the central conceptual problems of memory studies, the book explores the relationships between the individual and the collective, between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, between remembering as a subjective experience and as a social or cultural practice, and between memory and history as modes of retrospective knowledge.

ISBN 071906077X   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780719060779 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 449 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title Historical Approaches Publication date 01 Nov 2007   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress D16.9   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 901   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

1		History and memory: an imagined relationship		26
		Past and present		27
		History and memory: connections and separations		30
		History and collective memory		39
		History and memorialization		49
		Continuations		58
2		Memory and the individual		66
		Definitions and approaches		67
		Memory as reconstruction		75
		Memory, selfhood and narrativity		90
3		Remembering in society		118
		Memory and social interaction		125
		Memory, groups and social belonging		132
		Memory and the devices of culture		141
		Theorizing memory in social settings: Bartlett, Halbwachs and others		154
4		Memory and transmission		175
		Tradition		179
		Media of communication		182
		Material and environmental aspects		192
5		Social memory and the collective past		199
		Events and their afterlives		206
		Connections and commemorations		214
		Tensions and contestations		222
		The individual and the collective past		231
		Memory in crisis?		242

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