In this Book

History and memory

Book
Geoffrey Cubitt
2013
summary

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.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp. vii-viii

Introduction

pp. 1-25

1. History and Memory: An Imagined Relationship

pp. 26-65

2. Memory and the Individual

pp. 66-117

3. Remembering in Society

pp. 118-174

4. Memory and Transmission

pp. 175-198

5. Social Memory and the Collective Past

pp. 199-256

Index

pp. 257-264
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