Author

Publication

2011 - Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, Victoria

Language

English

Word Count

33,250 words, Guess

Page Count

133 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC364.4

Description

Esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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