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Book SynopsisAddresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries
Trade Review‘Sites of Imperial Memory contains a mine of new insights and perspectives. It provides a panorama of inspiring case studies from various imperial contexts, covering both metropoles and colonies, and demonstrates how rewarding it can be to anchor memory studies more firmly in the field of imperial history. The volume is particularly strong when it comes to exploring the multiple ways in which the use of symbols and public memory in colonial times intersected with the construction of memory after empire.’
Jan C. Jansen is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XXXVIII, No 2 (November 2016)
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Table of Contents1. Beyond national memory. Nora’s Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world – Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller
PART I: Monuments
2. Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery – Xavier Guégan
3. Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon – Shraddha Kumbhojkar
4. The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history – James Koranyi
5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan’s post-imperial commemoration – Barak Kushner
PART II: Heroes and villains
6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and French ‘heroic imperialists’ as sites of memory – Berny Sèbe
7. Jan Pieterszoon Coen: a man they love to hate. The first governor-general of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial site of memory – Victor Enthoven
8. The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain – Richard Goebelt
9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory and empire – John Stuart
10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia – Stefan Creuzberger
PART III: Remembering and forgetting
11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the raj in post-war India – Maria Misra
12. ‘Forgive and forget’? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory – Winfried Speitkamp
13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin – Katja Kaiser
14. Recollections of rubber – Frank Uekötter
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