Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community

Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond

Bo Strath (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

429 Seiten

2000
Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes (Verlag)
978-90-5201-910-9 (ISBN)

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Across and beyond Europe, history is being rewritten in the wake of the Cold War’s dissolution. An example of this process is the re-evaluation of the part played by resistance movements during World War II in country after country. This book deals with the role of myth and memory in the formation of collective identities with a particular emphasis on national identities. Myth and memory should not be seen as clearly demarcated from history. They are history in ceaseless transformation and reconstruction, the image of the past is continuously reconsidered and reconstituted in the light of an everchanging present. History is an interpretation of the past; not the past as it really was. The key question of this book concerns the role myth and memory play in the construction of communities, and what the distinction between collective myth and memory signifies. The discussion of this question is undertaken in theoretically oriented chapters as well as 15 case studies of national patterns from Scandinavia in the north to Italy and Israel in the south, and from the USA in the west to Russia in the east, as well as local community constructions in working-class districts in Glasgow and Roubaix and the national politics of architecture in Berlin and Rome.
This book appears within the framework of a research project on the cultural construction of community in modernisation processes in comparison. This project is a joint enterprise of the European University Institute in Florence and the Humboldt University in Berlin sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund.

The Editor: Bo Stråth is Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History and Civilisation/Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published widely on political and economic history, and his research focuses on processes of modernisation and democratisation processes in Western Europe in a comparative context, with particular reference to organisation of the labour market.

Reihe/Serie	Europe plurielle ; 9
	Europe plurielle / Multiple Europes ; 9
	Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes ; 9
Zusatzinfo	ill.
Verlagsort	Bruxelles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	90-5201-910-X / 905201910X
ISBN-13	978-90-5201-910-9 / 9789052019109
Zustand	Neuware