A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history.
This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in the in the Nineteenth Century explores memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting.
A Cultural History of Memory in Nineteenth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’.
Edited by:
Susan A. Crane
Volume editor:
Professor Peter Fritzsche
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 169mm,
Spine: 85mm
Weight: 1.000kg
ISBN: 9781474273503
ISBN 10: 1474273505
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 08 September 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
Susan A. Crane is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona, USA. Her research focuses on thematic issues of collective memory, historical consciousness and historical photography. She is the author of Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early 19th-Century Germany (2000) and Nothing Happened: A History (2020), and editor of Museums and Memory (2000).
