A European memory? : contested histories and politics of remembrance / edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A European Memory? / Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth -- Part I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships -- On 'European Memory': Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks / Jan Werner Müller -- The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanization / Klas-Göran Karlsson -- Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance / Stefan Troebst -- Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics? / Wolfgang Kaschuba -- Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society / Heidemarie Uhl -- Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History / Frederick Whitling -- Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories / James Kaye -- Part II. Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts -- Section 1. Remembering the Second World War -- Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe 1945-2005 / Stefan Berger -- Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-eastern Europe / Heike Karge -- A Victory Celebrated. Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation / Clemens Maier -- Section 2. Towards a Europeanization of the Commemoration of the Holocaust -- Remembering Europe's Heart of Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies / Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke -- Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 / Stanisław Tyszka -- A Europeanization of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of Europa, Europa (1990) by Agnieszka Holland / Małgorzata Pakier -- Italian Commemoration of the Shoah. The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance / Ruth Nattermann -- Section 3. Coming to Terms with Europe's Communist Past -- Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States / Arfon Rees -- Eurocommunism. Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe / Péter Apor -- The Memory of the Dead Body / Senadin Musabegović -- Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe / Kevin Morgan -- Section 4. Coming to Terms with Europe's Colonial Past -- Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France / Jan Jansen -- Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte / Lars Elenius -- Conclusion. Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories / Konrad H. Jarausch.