Stefan Berger,Bill Niven
How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history.,This book includes:,- Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches,- Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral history and generational and collective memory,- Two key case studies on Holocaust memorialisation and the memory of Communism
Writing the History of Memory