The use and abuse of memory. Interpreting World War II in contemporary European politics.

Sonst. Personen	Karner, Christian (Hrsg.); Mertens, Bram (Hrsg.)
Titel	The use and abuse of memory. Interpreting World War II in contemporary European politics.
Quelle	New Brunswick, NJ; London; New Brunswick, NJ u.a.: Transaction Publishers (2013), [6], 284 S.Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-4128-5194-7
Schlagwörter	Kollektives Gedächtnis; Geschichte (Histor); Judenvernichtung; Politik; Aufsatzsammlung; Europa
Abstract	Introduction. memories and analogies of World War II / Christian Karner and Bram MertensGenocide memorialization and the Europeanization of Europe / Henning Grunwald -- Appeasement analogies in British parliamentary debates preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq / Joseph Burridge -- How deeply rooted is the commitment to "never again"? Dick Bengtsson's swastikas and European memory culture / Tanja Schult -- Cultural memories of German suffering during the Second World War. an inability not to mourn? / Karl Wilds -- From perpetrators to victims and back again. the long shadow of the Second World War in Belgium / Bram Mertens -- L'histoire bling-bling. Nicolas Sarkozy and the historians / Paul Smith -- The pasts of the present. World War II memories and the construction of political legitimacy in post-cold war Italy / Bjorn Thomassen and Rosario Forlenza -- "The Nazis strike again". the concept of "the German enemy", party strategies and mass perceptions under the prism of the Greek economic crisis / Zinovia Lialiouti and Giorgos Bithymitris -- Who were the anti-fascists? divergent interpretations of WWII in contemporary post-Yugoslav history textbooks / Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc and Tamara Pavasovic Trot -- Multiple dimensions and discursive contests in Austria's "mythscape" / Christian Karner -- World War II in discourses of national identification in Poland. an intergenerational perspective / Anna Duszak -- From the "re-unification of the Ukrainian lands" to "Soviet occupation". the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in the Ukrainian political memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- "Often very harmful things start out with things that are very harmless". European reflections on guilt and innocence inspired by art about the Holocaust in the 1990s / Diana I. Popescu -- Epilogue / Christian Karner and Bram Mertens.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2014/3