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Metropolitan History of the Dutch Empire
Popular Imperialism in The Netherlands, 1850-1940
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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A Metropolitan History of the Dutch Empire: Popular Imperialism in The Netherlands, 1850-1940 examines popular imperial culture in the Netherlands around the turn of the twentieth century. In various and sometimes unexpected places in civil society the empire played a prominent role and was key in …
Archaeological Approaches to and Heritage Perspectives on Modern Conflict
Beyond the Battlefields
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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From a wider disciplinary perspective, modern conflict archaeology is now a thoroughly established and mature subdiscipline. However, a significant problem conflict archaeologists in the Netherlands face is that modern eras, including both world wars, have so far not received serious attention. …
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies
Unremembering Decolonization
Häftad, 2026
731 kr
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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a …
Emerging Memory
Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
Av Paul Bijl
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia. Dutch commentators have frequently claimed that the colonial past and especially the violence …
Foreign Cultural Policy in the Interbellum
The Italian Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council Contesting the Mediterranean
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations. Tamara van Kessel shows how the British created the British Council in support of those cultural aims, which took on particular urgency in light of …
Fragments of the Holocaust
The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended? David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, …
Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity
Localized Politics of European Memories
Av Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Sofia Laine m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics of memories. The contemporary and history-oriented case studies discuss politicized memories and pasts, the frictions of justice and reconciliation, and the diversity and fragmentation …
German Post-Socialist Memory Culture
Epistemic Nostalgia
Av Amieke Bouma
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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After German unification, former officers of the GDR state security service united with GDR professors and cultural managers to establish the East German Committee of Associations (OKV). On the basis of encompassing oral history into this complex web of interest organizations and memory clubs, …
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain
Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation
Av Elke Weesjes
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists’ attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century. Communist parties …
Guardians of Living History
An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as …
Homer, Troy and the Turks
Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915
Av Günay Uslu
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scholars today rely heavily on Western sources, …
Imagining Communities
Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation
Av Gemma Blok, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a deep, horizontal camaraderie. Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences., Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely …
Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
Häftad, 2025
1029 kr
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Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or as an imaginary geography of a 'Romantic' Spain in later centuries. However, …
Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain
Resistance through Remembrance
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments. The book describes how the production of monuments evolved and what forms this process and these monuments took; it examines how the monuments were …
Martyrdom
Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives
Av Ihab Saloul, Jan Willem van Henten
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives examines the canonisation, contestation and afterlives of martyrdom and connects these with cross-cultural acts and practices of …
Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict
Unwanted Memories
Av Orli Fridman
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region …
Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia
Embedded Remembering
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are …
Modelscapes of Nationalism
Collective Memories and Future Visions
Av Yael Padan
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Modelscapes are clusters of miniature architectural models that represent entire environments. They're frequently found in museums as representations of heritage, architecture, and collective identity. This book offers a critical analysis of modelscapes, using case studies from Israel, to show how …
Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands
Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is …
Questioning Traumatic Heritage
Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America
Av Ihab Saloul, Patrizia Violi m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through …
Reading Memory Sites Through Signs
Hiding into Landscape
Av Cristina Demaria, Patrizia Violi
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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What can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and …
Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons
Av Erica van Boven, Marieke Winkler
Häftad, 2025
816 kr
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Departing from the present need for cultural models within the public debate, this volume offers a new contribution to the study of cultural icons. From the traditional religious icon to the modern mass media icon, from the recognizable visual icon to the complex entanglement of image and …
Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Segregating in the Name of the Nation
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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By focusing on the politics of disability as a pillar of Czechoslovak identity, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation reflects upon the vicissitudes of nation building over the twentieth century that led to extreme forms of …
Roots of Nationalism
National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815
Av Lotte Jensen
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis …
Trauma and Nostalgia
Practices in Memory and Identity
Av Lucien van Liere, Srdjan Sremac
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This volume reflects on the significance of nostalgia in the construction of traumatic pasts, both on an individual and a collective level. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, the volume enhances our understanding of how the entanglements of trauma and nostalgia influence the construction …
Vietnam, A War, Not a Country
Av Ron Eyerman, Todd Madigan m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Vietnam: A War, Not a Country explores the conflicting ways in which the American-Vietnamese War has been collectively remembered and represented from the perspective of the war’s three primary belligerents: the Vietnamese communists, the South Vietnamese, and the Americans. The book examines how …
W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies
Memory, Word and Image
Av Leonida Kovac, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
1029 kr
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When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and …
Trauma and Nostalgia
Practices in Memory and Identity
Av Lucien van Liere, Srdjan Sremac
Inbunden, 2024
2114 kr
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This volume reflects on the significance of nostalgia in the construction of traumatic pasts, both on an individual and a collective level. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, the volume enhances our understanding of how the entanglements of trauma and nostalgia influence the construction …
Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain
Resistance through Remembrance
Inbunden, 2024
1892 kr
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This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments.
Remaking Urban Heritage
Refugee Walking Tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv
Av Michal Huss
Inbunden, 2025
1632 kr
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This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition. Challenging the crisis-driven, state-centric frameworks that dominate migration and border studies – where refugees are often cast as passive victims or threats …
