{"product_id":"a-european-memory-contested-histories-and-politics-of-remembrance-9781845456214","title":"A European Memory?: Contested Histories and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAn examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe’s past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe’s past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Editors Malgorzata Pakier and Bo Strath and the score of contributing scholars deserve commendation for a collection of ambitious essays, many of which represent bold attempts at explaining and synthesizing complex concepts and processes.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Journal of Cold War Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe book provides an extremely useful guide through the labyrinth of issues concerning Europeans and the politics of remembrance. The editors deserve great credit for taking on and attempting to represent the multiplicity of debates that characterize contemporary European visions of and debates about the past.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCentral European History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis work assembles the most recent reflections on the cultural unification of Europe as well as…proposes a serious interdisciplinary discussion of practices of memory. A work that is useful for whoever wishes to have an overview of the questions arising from the internationalization of national memoirs and to reflect on the role of the historian in the context of the multiple discourses on the past.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistoire sociale\/Social History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eAn anthology of impressive and seminal scholarly research, ‘\u003c\/em\u003eA European Memory?\u003cem\u003e’ is a welcome addition to the Berghahn Books' outstanding 'Studies in Contemporary European History' series and highly recommended for academic library European History reference collections and supplemental reading lists\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBookwatch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t “\u003cem\u003e[This timely volume] comes as a worthy and insightful reader on one of the core fields of debate in European social and human sciences, with its focus on the representations of the most deplorable parts of European twentieth-century history…Many of its articles offer interesting thoughts and useful introductions, highlighting both actors and structures of ‘memory production’…It will no doubt be a handy companion in classes on politics and history in contemporary Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH-Soz-u-Kult\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory concept for a broad assessment of the dark legacies of Nazism, Communism, and World War II for a common European identity, the volume has no equal. It overwhelms the reader with a plethora of both new and well established information and reflection…The overall direction coincides with the current trend towards internationalization of national histories. It can be considered a strong contribution to this important and worthwhile trend.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Frank Trommler,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eA European Memory?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMałgorzata Pakier\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBo Stråth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eOn ‘European Memory’: Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJan –Werner Müller \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKlas-Göran Karlsson \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Halecki Revisited: Europe’s Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStefan Troebst\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWolfgang Kaschuba\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHeidemarie Uhl \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrederick Whitling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJames Kaye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. Remembering Europe’s Dark Pasts \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection 1. Remembering the Second World War:\u003cbr\u003e \tChapter 8\u003c\/strong\u003e. Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe 1945 – 2005\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStefan Berger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHeike Karge \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Victory Celebrated. Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClemens Maier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection 2. Towards a Europeanization of the Commemoration of the Holocaust:\u003cbr\u003e \tChapter \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Remembering Europe’s Heart of Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStanisław Tyszka \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Europeanization of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of \u003cem\u003eEuropa, Europa\u003c\/em\u003e (1990) by Agnieszka Holland\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMałgorzata Pakier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Italian Commemoration of the Shoah. The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRuth Nattermann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection 3. Coming to Terms with Europe’s Communist Past:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eManaging the History of the Past in the Former Communist States\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eArfon Rees \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e Eurocommunism. Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePéter Apor \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Memory of the Dead Body\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSenadin Musabegović \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/strong\u003e Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKevin Morgan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection 4. Coming to Terms with Europe’s Colonial Past: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 19.\u003c\/strong\u003e Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJan Jansen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 20.\u003c\/strong\u003e Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Elenius\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKonrad H. 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