- Format
- Book
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
- Contents
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Introduction: Memory, public life and the work of the historian / Adam Sutcliffe, Anna Maerker and Simon Sleight
Part I: Approaches to history and memory. 1: historical scholarship and public memory in Britain : a case of oil and water? / John Tosh ; 2: Challenge or opportunity? Postcolonialism and the historian / toby green ; 3: sites of memory / keir reeves ; 4: race, migration and national origins / peter heather ; 5: mobility, migration and modern memory / Eureka Henrich ; 6: Memory and the city / Simon Sleight 7: Hagiography and biography : narratives of 'great men of science' / Anna Maerker
Part II: Difficult pasts. 8: Remembering Anzac : Australia and World War I / Frank Bongiorno ; 9: Dealing with the past : history, memory and the Northern Ireland troubles / Ian McBride ; 10: Truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa / Tom Lodge ; 11: History and memory in the American South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; 12: The politics of Holocaust memory / Adam Sutcliffe ; 13: LGBT histories and the politics of identity / Laura Gowing.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Maerker, Anna Katharina, editor.
Sleight, Simon, editor.
Sutcliffe, Adam, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Memory, public life and the work of the historian / Adam Sutcliffe, Anna Maerker and Simon Sleight -- Part I: Approaches to history and memory. 1: historical scholarship and public memory in Britain : a case of oil and water? / John Tosh ; 2: Challenge or opportunity? Postcolonialism and the historian / toby green ; 3: sites of memory / keir reeves ; 4: race, migration and national origins / peter heather ; 5: mobility, migration and modern memory / Eureka Henrich ; 6: Memory and the city / Simon Sleight 7: Hagiography and biography : narratives of 'great men of science' / Anna Maerker -- Part II: Difficult pasts. 8: Remembering Anzac : Australia and World War I / Frank Bongiorno ; 9: Dealing with the past : history, memory and the Northern Ireland troubles / Ian McBride ; 10: Truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa / Tom Lodge ; 11: History and memory in the American South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; 12: The politics of Holocaust memory / Adam Sutcliffe ; 13: LGBT histories and the politics of identity / Laura Gowing.
