Performing the Past : Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe

Jay Winter

ISBN 10: 9089642056 / ISBN 13: 9789089642059

Published by Amsterdam University Press Mär 2010, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performing the Past : Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Mär 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9089642056
• ISBN 13: 9789089642059
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 155H x 24D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 578 grams

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Synopsis

Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them is big business; if the past is indeed a foreign country, there are tens of thousands of tourist agents, guides, and pundits around to help us on our way, for a fee, to be sure. This collection of essays by renowned scholars from, among others, Yale, Columbia, Amsterdam Oxford, Cambridge, New York University and the European University Institute in Florence, is essential reading for anyone interested in today's memory boom. Drawing on different national and disciplinary traditions, the authors ultimately engage us with the ways in which Europeans continue a venerable tradition of finding out who they are, and where they are going, by performing the past.

About the Author

Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. Karin Tilmans is a cultural historian, fellow of the Department of History and Civilisation, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, both at the European University Institute. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.