History and memoryIn recent years, ‘memory’ has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally. This book, which is aimed both at specialists and at students, provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and theories about memory, and to the range of approaches that have been taken to the study of it in history and other disciplines Contributing in a wide-ranging way to debate on some of the central conceptual problems of memory studies, the book explores the relationships between the individual and the collective, between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, between remembering as a subjective experience and as a social or cultural practice, and between memory and history as modes of retrospective knowledge. |
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activity allows American approach argues articulated aspects autobiographical awareness become collective memory collective past commemorative complex conceptions connections consciousness constructed context continuous contribution course cultural depends detail discussion earlier effect efforts elements episodes essential established example existence experience exploring focus focused forgetting forms function further give given historians human idea identity images important impressions individual influence institutional interactions interest involved issues kind knowledge larger later least less living London materials meanings memory's mental mind mnemonic moments narrative objects occasions once oral organized original particular past past experience patterns period phases political possible practice present processes production recent recollection refer reflect relation relationship remembering representations seems sense separate shaped significance simply social memory society sometimes specific stories structures symbolic things thinking tion tradition understanding writing