Author

Publication

2000 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99088549
  • Goodreads2259226
  • LibraryThing1886757

Classifications

  • DDC943.08
  • LCCDD222 .K67 2000

Description

"Rudy Koshar constructs a framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half-century has been shaped by the experiences of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Koshar surveys the evidence of postwar German memory in the context of previous traditions. From Monuments to Traces follows the evolution of German "memory landscapes" all the way from national unification in 1870-71 through the world wars and political division to reunification in 1990. Koshar argues that in Germany, memory landscapes have taken shape according to four separate paradigms - the national monument, the ruin, the reconstruction, and the trace - which he analyzes in relation to the changing political agendas that have guided them over time."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Weimar and now ;

Other Editions

  • From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990University of California Press2000-01-01

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