{"product_id":"sites-of-imperial-memory-commemorating-colonial-rule-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries-studies-in-imperialism-119-9780719090813","title":"Sites of Imperial Memory Commemorating Colonial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Sites of Imperial Memory \u003c\/i\u003econtains 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.’\u003cbr\u003eJan C. Jansen  is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XXXVIII, No 2 (November 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Beyond national memory. Nora’s Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world – Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller\u003cbr\u003ePART I: Monuments\u003cbr\u003e2. Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery – Xavier Guégan\u003cbr\u003e3. Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon – Shraddha Kumbhojkar\u003cbr\u003e4. The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history – James Koranyi\u003cbr\u003e5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan’s post-imperial commemoration – Barak Kushner\u003cbr\u003ePART II: Heroes and villains\u003cbr\u003e6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and French ‘heroic imperialists’ as sites of memory – Berny Sèbe\u003cbr\u003e7. 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\u003cbr\u003e8. The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain – Richard Goebelt\u003cbr\u003e9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory and empire – John Stuart\u003cbr\u003e10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia – Stefan Creuzberger\u003cbr\u003ePART III: Remembering and forgetting\u003cbr\u003e11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the raj in post-war India – Maria Misra\u003cbr\u003e12. ‘Forgive and forget’? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory – Winfried Speitkamp\u003cbr\u003e13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin – Katja Kaiser\u003cbr\u003e14. Recollections of rubber – Frank Uekötter\u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884290191703,"sku":"9780719090813","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sites-of-imperial-memory-commemorating-colonial-rule-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries-studies-in-imperialism-119-9780719090813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}