Download or read book Realms of Memory: Traditions written by Pierre Nora and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.