{"product_id":"the-memory-of-catastrophe-9780719063459","title":"The Memory of Catastrophe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemories of catastrophes - those which occur naturally and those which are consequences of human actions - loom large in the modern consciousness. This volume draws on the latest scholarship to investigate this phenomenon in both contemporary and historical contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction – Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver\u003cbr\u003e2. Remembering the English Civil War – Mark Stoyle\u003cbr\u003e3. ‘Diabolical design’: Charleston elites, the 1822 slave insurrection and the discourse of the supernatural – P. A. Cramer\u003cbr\u003e4. Memory and the commemoration of the Great Irish Famine – Peter Gray\u003cbr\u003e5. ‘The greatest and the worst’: Dominant and subaltern memories of the Dos Bocas well fire of 1908 – Glen D. Kuecker\u003cbr\u003e6. The Titanic and the commodification of catastrophe – James Guimond\u003cbr\u003e7. Doctors and trauma in World War One: The response of British military psychiatrists – Edgar Jones\u003cbr\u003e8. Commemorations of the siege of Leningrad: A catastrophe in memory and myth – Lisa A. Kirschenbaum\u003cbr\u003e9. The missing camps of Aktion Reinhard: The judicial displacement of a mass murder – Donald Bloxham\u003cbr\u003e10. Memory and authenticity: The case of Binjamin Wilkomirski – Andrea Reiter\u003cbr\u003e11. Partition memory and multiple identities in the Champaran district of Bihar, India – Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff\u003cbr\u003e12. Bodies do count: American nurses mourn the catastrophe of Vietnam – Carol Acton\u003cbr\u003e13. ‘Not much of a place anymore’: The reception and memory of the massacre at My Lai – Kendrick Oliver\u003cbr\u003e14. Remembering Vukovar, forgetting Vukovar: Constructing national identity through the memory of catastrophe in Croatia – Rose Lindsey\u003cbr\u003e15. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Sawoniuk? British memory of the Holocaust and Kosovo, Spring 1999 – Tony Kushner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037294920023,"sku":"9780719063459","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719063459.jpg?v=1750935204","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-memory-of-catastrophe-9780719063459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}