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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820655203321

Titolo

The politics of memory in postwar Europe [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8223-3802-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 pages)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Altri autori (Persone)

LebowRichard Ned

KansteinerWulf

FoguClaudio <1963->

Disciplina

940.53/14094

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Psychological aspects

World War, 1939-1945 - Europe

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Europe

National characteristics, European

Collective memory - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The memory of politics in postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow -- From victim myth to co-responsibility thesis : Nazi rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian memory / Heidemarie Uhl -- The legacy of World War II in France : mapping the discourses of memory / Richard J. Golsan -- Losing the war, winning the memory battle : the legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wulf Kansteiner -- Italiani brava gente : the legacy of fascist historical culture on Italian politics of memory / Claudio Fogu -- New threads on an old loom : national memory and social identity in postwar and post-communist Poland / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska -- What is so special about Switzerland? Wartime memory as a national ideology in the Cold War era / Regula Ludi -- Past as present, myth, or history? Discourses of time and the great fatherland war / Thomas C. Wolfe -- The politics of memory and the poetics of history / Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner.

Sommario/riassunto

Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,



Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).