Remembering History Presently

Author : Joan Tumblety
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135905361

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Memory and History by Joan Tumblety Pdf

How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other? Memory and History explores the different aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan and treating periods beyond living memory as well as the recent past, the volume highlights the contours of the current vogue for memory among historians while demonstrating the diversity and imagination of the field. Each chapter looks at a set of key historical and historiographical questions through research-based case studies: How does engaging with memory as either source or subject help to illuminate the past? What are the theoretical, ethical and/or methodological challenges that are encountered by historians engaging with memory in this way, and how might they be managed? How can the reading of a particular set of sources illuminate both of these questions? The chapters cover a diverse range of approaches and subjects including oral history, memorialization and commemoration, visual cultures and photography, autobiographical fiction, material culture, ethnic relations, the individual and collective memories of war veterans. The chapters collectively address a wide range of primary source material beyond oral testimony – photography, monuments, memoir and autobiographical writing, fiction, art and woodcuttings, ‘everyday’ and ‘exotic’ cultural artefacts, journalism, political polemic, the law and witness testimony. This book will be essential reading for students of history and memory, providing an accessible guide to the historical study of memory through a focus on varied source materials.

Author : Alison Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226902609

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Memory by Alison Winter Pdf

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they gone forever? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century. Tracing the cultural and scientific history of our understanding of memory, Winter explores early metaphors that likened memory to a filing cabinet; later, she shows, that cabinet was replaced by the image of a reel of film, ever available for playback. That model, too, was eventually superseded, replaced by the current understanding of memory as the result of an extremely complicated, brain-wide web of cells and systems that together assemble our pasts. Winter introduces us to innovative scientists and sensationalistic seekers, and, drawing on evidence ranging from scientific papers to diaries to movies, explores the way that new understandings from the laboratory have seeped out into psychiatrists' offices, courtrooms, and the culture at large. Along the way, she investigates the sensational battles over the validity of repressed memories that raged through the 1980s and shows us how changes in technology—such as the emergence of recording devices and computers—have again and again altered the way we conceptualize, and even try to study, the ways we remember. Packed with fascinating details and curious episodes from the convoluted history of memory science, Memory is a book you'll remember long after you close its cover.

Author : J. M. Winter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300127522

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Remembering War by J. M. Winter Pdf

This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"-film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.

Author : Laura Mattoon D’Amore,Jeffrey Meriwether
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443845854

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We Are What We Remember by Laura Mattoon D’Amore,Jeffrey Meriwether Pdf

Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes current trends in the study of historical memory that are particularly relevant to our own present – our biases, our politics, our contextual moment – and strive to name forgotten, overlooked, and denied pasts in traditional histories. Race, gender, and sexuality, for example, raise questions about our most treasured myths: where were the slaves at Jamestowne? How do women or lesbians protect and preserve their own histories, when no one else wants to write them? Our current social climate allows us to question authority, and especially the authoritative definitions of nation, patriotism, and heroism, and belonging. How do we “un-commemorate” things that were “mis-commemorated” in the past? How do we repair the damage done by past commemorations? The chapters in this book, contributed by eighteen emerging and established scholars, examine these modern questions that entirely reimagine the landscape of commemoration as it has been practiced, and studied, before.

Author : Michael A. McDonnell,Clare Corbould,Frances M. Clarke,William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : United States
ISBN : 1625340338

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Remembering the Revolution by Michael A. McDonnell,Clare Corbould,Frances M. Clarke,William Fitzhugh Brundage Pdf

How conflicting memories of the nation's origins shaped the political culture of the early American republic

Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080328084X

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Remembering America by Lawrence R. Samuel Pdf

American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues. In Remembering America, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the place that American history has occupied within education and popular culture and how it has continually shaped and reflected our cultural values and national identity. The story of American history, Samuel explains, is not a straight line but rather one filled with twists and turns and ups and downs, its narrative path as winding as that of the United States as a whole. Organized around six distinct eras of American history ranging from the 1920s to the present, Samuel shows that our understanding of American history has often generated struggle and contention as ideologically opposed groups battled over ownership of the past. As women and minorities gained greater power and a louder voice in the national conversation, our perspectives on American history became significantly more multicultural, bringing race, gender, and class issues to the forefront. These new interpretations of our history helped to reshape our identity on both a national and an individual level. Samuel argues that the fight for ownership of our past, combined with how those owners have imparted history to our youth, crucially affects who we are. Our interpretation and expression of our country's past reflects how that self-identity has changed over the last one hundred years and created a strong sense of our collective history--one of the few things Americans all have in common.

Author : Tommy Sang-Uk Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : MINN:31951P00786461O

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Remembering History Presently by Tommy Sang-Uk Kim Pdf

"My project examines the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on contemporary African-American culture. Specifically, I demonstrate that there exists a corresponding relationship between African-American history and identity so that the revisioning of history influences our understanding of racial identities and vice versa."--Abstract (p. ii).

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226713465

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Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France's role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history "overly remembers" some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, showing how it affects both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. Memory, History, Forgetting, like its title, is divided into three major sections. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. The second section addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Ricoeur explores whether historians, who can write a history of memory, can truly break with all dependence on memory, including memories that resist representation. The third and final section is a profound meditation on the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering, and whether there can be something like happy forgetting in parallel to happy memory. Throughout the book there are careful and close readings of the texts of Aristotle and Plato, of Descartes and Kant, and of Halbwachs and Pierre Nora. A momentous achievement in the career of one of the most significant philosophers of our age, Memory, History, Forgetting provides the crucial link between Ricoeur's Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another and his recent reflections on ethics and the problems of responsibility and representation. “His success in revealing the internal relations between recalling and forgetting, and how this dynamic becomes problematic in light of events once present but now past, will inspire academic dialogue and response but also holds great appeal to educated general readers in search of both method for and insight from considering the ethical ramifications of modern events. . . . It is indeed a master work, not only in Ricoeur’s own vita but also in contemporary European philosophy.”—Library Journal “Ricoeur writes the best kind of philosophy—critical, economical, and clear.”— New York Times Book Review

Author : Geoffrey Cubitt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0719060788

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History and Memory by Geoffrey Cubitt Pdf

In recent years, "memory" has become a central and controversial concept in historical studies. It is a term that denotes a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a more general field of inquiry. This book provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and theories about memory and approaches to the study of it in history and other disciplines. 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.

Author : David Rieff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9780300182798

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In Praise of Forgetting by David Rieff Pdf

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, "inoculate" the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds--whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces--neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option--sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget. Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times--the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11--Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy.

Author : Chima J. Korieh,Ifeanyi Ezeonu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1938598164

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Remembering Biafra by Chima J. Korieh,Ifeanyi Ezeonu Pdf

Author : Sudhir Panse
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781482833614

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Time Management for Students by Sudhir Panse Pdf

Students today have exciting career opportunities, but face stiff challenges to materialize them. Time management is the key to success. Those who manage time efficiently will get rewards; those who fail to do so, will face disappointments. Time management does not mean you need to turn into a workaholic. It means efficiently completing your work without stress; and getting more time for other enjoyable and fruitful pursuits. This is a 'work-book'. It is to be put into practice. It explains simple and effective techniques, and offers practical tips for time management. Topics include, 'efficient methods of studies', 'improving memory', 'speed reading' 'taking notes in class' 'time management during examinations'. But apart from a work-book, it is also a highly motivating book. It explains how the practice of time management will not only help students in the immediate context of their studies and examinations, but will also help and enrich them in later life. The deep but practical insights on time management developed by the author from his long and extraordinarily varied teaching experience are succinctly encapsulated and lucidly explained in this remarkable book. A book that every student must possess and read frequently to ensure success, now and in future.

Author : Michael A. McDonnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : United States
ISBN : 1613762771

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Remembering the Revolution by Michael A. McDonnell Pdf

Author : Marek Tamm,Alessandro Arcangeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 1474206751

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A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age by Marek Tamm,Alessandro Arcangeli Pdf

Author : Mario Carretero
Publisher : IAP
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617353413

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Constructing Patriotism by Mario Carretero Pdf

Memory construction and national identity are key issues in our societies, as well as it is patriotism. How can we nowadays believe and give sense to traditional narrations that explain the origins of nations and communities? How do these narrations function in a process of globalization? How should we remember the recent past? In the construction of collective memory, no doubt history taught at school plays a fundamental role, as childhood and adolescence are periods in which the identity seeds flourish vigorously. This book analyses how history is far more than pure historical contents given in a subject matter; it studies the situation of school history in different countries such as the former URSS, United States, Germany, Japan, Spain and Mexico, making sensible comparisons and achieving global conclusions. The empirical part is based on students interviews about school patriotic rituals, very close to the teaching of history, specifically carried out in Argentina but very similar to these rituals in other countries. The author analizes in which ways that historical knowledge is understood by students and its influence on the construction of patriotism. This book--aside from making a major contribution to the cultural psychology field--should be of direct interest and relevance to all people interested in the ways education succeeds in its variable functions. As a matter of fact, it is related to other IAP books as Contemporary Public Debates Over History Education (Nakou & Barca, 2010) and What Shall We Tell the Children? International Perspectives on School History Textbooks (Foster & Crawford, 2006).