Commemorations : the politics of national identity / edited by John R. Gillis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is "identity" a useful cross-cultural concept? / Richard Handler -- Identity, heritage, and history / David Lowenthal -- National memory in early modern England / David Cressy -- Public memory in an American city : commemoration in Cleveland / John Bodnar -- The museum and the politics of social control in modern Iraq / Eric Davis -- The historic, the legendary, and the incredible : invented tradition and collective memory in Israel / Yael Zerubavel -- The politics of memory : Black emancipation and the Civil War monument / Kirk Savage -- Memory and naming in the Great War / Thomas W. Laqueur -- The war dead and the Gold Star : American commemoration of the First World War / G. Kurt Piehler -- Art, commerce, and the production of memory in France after World War I / Daniel J. Sherman -- Building pasts : historic preservation and identity in twentieth-century Germany / Rudy J. Koshar -- Creating the authentic France : struggles over French identity in the first half of the twentieth century / Herman Lebovics -- Between memory and oblivion : concentration camps in German memory / Claudia Koonz.