History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2004

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2004

Identity and trauma: two forms of the will to memory.
March 22, 2004... There seems to be general agreement among scholars that in Eastern Europe, after the fall of communism, there is a crisis of collective memory. At the same time, there is also disagreement about the causes and nature of this crisis: some...

Monuments, public space, and the memory of empire in modern Italy.
March 22, 2004... Ora che e morto la patria si gloria d'un altro eroe alla memoria Fabrizio De Andre, "La ballata dell'eroe" How are wars defined and described, and for whose benefit? What constitutes a war worth remembering? Among European historians,...

Symbiotic commemoration: the stories of Kalaupapa.
March 22, 2004... Hawaii is not the first place that comes to mind when considering the phenomenon of dark tourism, a term meant to define the preservation, marketing and organized visitation of sites associated with suffering and death. (1) Since the eighteenth...

The long shadow of the past: history, memory and the debate over West Germany's nuclear status, 1954-69.
March 22, 2004... What is wrong with discrimination against her [Germany] in the use and possession of nuclear weapons? Hugh Gaitskell, 1960 (1) Two decades after Auschwitz, two apparently unrelated questions simultaneously preoccupied West Germany and...

Constructing a Christian History of Nazism.
March 22, 2004... Anglicanism and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1945-49 Perceptions of the Third Reich forged in Western Europe and the USA immediately after 1945 were constructed according to the relationship between the West and the Soviet Union. By the...