States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection

Published by Duke University Press 2003

States of Memory

Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection

Edited by: Jeffrey K. Olick , Julia Adams and George Steinmetz
With contributions by: Fred C. Corney and Simonetta Falasca Zamponi

In the series Politics, History, and Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384687

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About this book

A journal into book collection on national memory focusing on commemorations, collective apologies, and historical revisions, now enhanced by the addition of 6 essays by senior, historical sociologists.

Author / Editor information

Jeffrey K. Olick is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.

Reviews

“An old Yugoslav aphorism goes: ‘The future is not hard to predict, but the past is forever changing.’ The essays gathered in this volume all deal in one way or another with the way people organize their collective memories of a past, and particularly a national past. The range of topics is remarkable, and the essays themselves are uniformly excellent—beginning with Jeffrey K. Olick's masterful introduction.”—Kai Erikson, author of A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Je√rey K. Olick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Rethinking a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project Frederick C. Corney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Of Storytellers and Master Narratives: Modernity, Memory, and History in Fascist Italy Simonetta Falasca Zamponi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Idols of the Emperor Matt K. Matsuda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Confucius and the Cultural Revolution: A Study in Collective Memory Tong Zhang and Barry Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Institutional Legacies and Collective Memories: The Case of the Spanish Transition to Democracy Paloma Aguilar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
When Do Collective Memories Last?: Founding Moments in the United States and Australia Lyn Spillman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Legacies and Liabilities of an Insurgent Past: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. on the House and Senate Floor Francesca Polletta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Postnationalist Pasts: The Case of Israel Uri Ram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
What Does It Mean to Normalize the Past?: Official Memory in German Politics since 1989 Je√rey K. Olick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
The ‘‘End’’ of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium Carol Gluck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Calendars and History: A Comparative Study of the Social Organization of National Memory Eviatar Zerubavel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Afterword: Borges and Brass Charles Tilly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 368
Illustrations
- Other: 6 tables, 3 figures

eBook

Published: July 21, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384687