memory of catastrophe

Peter Gray is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton. Kendrick Oliver is a Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Southampton

• List of Contributors1. Introduction – Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver2. Remembering the English Civil War – Mark Stoyle3. ‘Diabolical design’: Charleston elites, the 1822 slave insurrection and the discourse of the supernatural – P. A. Cramer4. Memory and the commemoration of the Great Irish Famine – Peter Gray5. ‘The greatest and the worst’: Dominant and subaltern memories of the Dos Bocas well fire of 1908 – Glen D. Kuecker6. The Titanic and the commodification of catastrophe – James Guimond7. Doctors and trauma in World War One: The response of British military psychiatrists – Edgar Jones8. Commemorations of the siege of Leningrad: A catastrophe in memory and myth – Lisa A. Kirschenbaum9. The missing camps of Aktion Reinhard: The judicial displacement of a mass murder – Donald Bloxham10. Memory and authenticity: The case of Binjamin Wilkomirski – Andrea Reiter11. Partition memory and multiple identities in the Champaran district of Bihar, India – Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff12. Bodies do count: American nurses mourn the catastrophe of Vietnam – Carol Acton13. ‘Not much of a place anymore’: The reception and memory of the massacre at My Lai – Kendrick Oliver14. Remembering Vukovar, forgetting Vukovar: Constructing national identity through the memory of catastrophe in Croatia – Rose Lindsey15. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Sawoniuk? British memory of the Holocaust and Kosovo, Spring 1999 – Tony Kushner