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- Sites of imperial memory: Commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
Europe’s great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial rule, and they are still vibrant and evocative today. This volume brings together a collection of innovative and fresh studies exploring different sites of imperial memory – those conceptual and real places where the memories of former colonial rulers and of former colonial subjects have crystallised into a lasting form. The volume explores how memory was built up, re-shaped and preserved across different empires, continents and centuries. It shows how it found concrete expression in stone and bronze, how it adhered to the stories that were told and retold about great individuals and how it was suppressed, denied and neglected.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Table of contents
- pp. v-vi
- List of illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- List of contributors
- pp. ix-xii
- Founding editor’s introduction
- pp. xiii-xv
- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- PART I Monuments
- PART II Heroes and villains
- PART III Remembering and forgetting
- 14 Recollections of rubber
- pp. 243-265
- Select bibliography
- pp. 266-273
Additional Information
ISBN
9781526111890
Related ISBN(s)
9780719090813
MARC Record
OCLC
981546297
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-14
Language
English
Open Access
No