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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823135803321

Autore

Ostow Robin

Titolo

(Re)visualizing national history : museums and national identities in Europe in the new millennium / / editor, Robin Ostow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9150-6

1-4426-8725-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

German and European Studies

Disciplina

069

Soggetti

Museums - Political aspects - Europe

History

Electronic books.

Europe Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Museums and national identities in Europe in the twenty-first century / Robin Ostow -- pt. 1. The twenty-first century : new exhibits and new partnerships. Exhibition as film / Mieke Bal -- pt. 2. Reconfiguring national history : centralized and local strategies. The terror of the House / Istvaþn Reþv -- Putting contested history on display : the uses of the past in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- pt. 3. Restoring national history with international participation. Museums, multiculturalism, and the remaking of postwar Sarajevo / Edin Hajdarpas?icþ -- Building a Jewish museum in Germany in the twenty-first century / Bernhard Purin -- Remusealizing Jewish history in Warsaw : the privatization and externalization of nation building / Robin Ostow -- pt. 4. Displaying war, genocide, and the nation : from Ottawa to Berlin, 2005. Constructing the Canadian War Museum/constructing the landscape of a Canadian identity / Reesa Greenberg -- Peter Eisenman's design for Berlin's memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe : a juror's report in three parts / James E. Young.

Sommario/riassunto

(Re)Visualizing National History is a unique and interdisciplinary volume



that offers insights on the dilemmas of present-day European culture, manifestations of nationalism in Europe, and the debates surrounding museums as sites for the representation of politics and history.