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Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Katherine Haldane Grenier
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-08 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices. Distinctive memory cultures emerged
Organic Memory
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Laura Otis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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How does the past live in us? Do we inherit our ancestors' memories as we do their physical characteristics? In the nineteenth century, mainstream science embra
The Gender of Memory
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Sylvia Paletschek
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Campus Verlag

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This volume addresses the complex relationship between memory, culture, and gender--as well as the representation of women in national memory--in several Europe
The Pride of Place
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Stephane Gerson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-06 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, sta
Museum Memories
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Didier Maleuvre
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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The author shows how museum culture offers a unique vantage point on the 19th and 20th centuries' preoccupation with history and subjectivity, and demonstrates