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The book consists of 16 case-studies on issues relating to memory, the majority of which stem from a conference in April 2005 at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Public memory is tackled from a variety of angles and various disciplines, ranging across the humanities, the social sciences and the exact sciences. First and foremost the reader will obtain a comprehensive overview of the results of scholarship published in recent years about public memory. Second, the book provides a profound insight into how public memory works within societies of different nature and at different junctures of their histories. The volume begins by offering a glimpse into individual memory, and then goes on to discuss religious societies, ethnic groups, secular groups, institutions and larger segments of society, ultimately reaching the nation state. The authors, each in his or her own discipline, have addressed the complexities involved in the creation of public memory, the media that promote and preserve it within groups and societies, and finally the nature of memory and how it 'behaves' during changing circumstances and changing regimes.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: On Memory
• Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• Author: Doron Mendels
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9783039110643
• ISBN: 9783039110643
• ID: 10025772
• Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
• Weight: 496 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 224 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. June 2007

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