Sites of Imperial Memory

Dominik Geppert is Professor of Modern History at the University of BonnFrank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews

‘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)

• 1. Beyond national memory. Nora’s Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world – Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz MüllerPART I: Monuments2. Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery – Xavier Guégan3. Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon – Shraddha Kumbhojkar4. The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history – James Koranyi5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan’s post-imperial commemoration – Barak KushnerPART II: Heroes and villains6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and French ‘heroic imperialists’ as sites of memory – Berny Sèbe7. 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 Enthoven8. The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain – Richard Goebelt9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory and empire – John Stuart10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia – Stefan CreuzbergerPART III: Remembering and forgetting11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the raj in post-war India – Maria Misra12. ‘Forgive and forget’? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory – Winfried Speitkamp13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin – Katja Kaiser14. Recollections of rubber – Frank UekötterSelect bibliographyIndex