History and memory

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 disciplinesContributing in a wide-ranging way to debate on some of the central conceptu.

Record details

ISBN: 1847791387
ISBN: 9781847791382
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages).
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Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	9780719060779; 9780719060779; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 HISTORY AND MEMORY:AN IMAGINED RELATIONSHIP; 2 MEMORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL; 3 REMEMBERING IN SOCIETY; 4 MEMORY AND TRANSMISSION; 5 SOCIAL MEMORY ANDTHE COLLECTIVE PAST; INDEX.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.