The work of memory
Subtitle: new directions in the study of German society and culture
By: edited by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche
Contributors: Confino, Alon; Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Memory -- Social aspects -- Germany; Memorials -- Germany; National socialism -- Psychological aspects; Political culture -- Germany; Germany -- Civilization; Germany -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Historicity; title: From presence to remembrance / Craig Koslofsky; title: Memory, history, and the Jewish question / Jonathan M. Hess; title: How nostalgia narrates modernity / Peter Fritzsche; title: Masters of memory / Marcus Funck and Stephan Malinowski; title: Part 2. Everyday life; title: Hildesheim in an age of pestilence / Andrew Stuart Bergerson; title: Awakening from war / Heinrich Böll, Elizabeth Snyder Hook; title: Memory and existence / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke; title: Part 3. Materiality; title: An economy of memory / Paul Lerner; title: Public relations as a site of memory / Jonathan Wiesen; title: Gender, public policy, and memory / Elizabeth Heineman