A Cultural History of Memory
Published on 8. February 2024
Book
978-1-350-40865-4 (ISBN)
Description
How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 64 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes situate our understanding of memory within a variety of historical contexts, looking to art and science alike to determine how it has changed in Western society since Antiquity.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (500 - 1450); 3. - Early Modern Age (1450 - 1700) ; 4. - Eighteenth Century (1700 - 1800); 5. - Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1900); 6. - Long Twentieth Century (1900 - 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy; religion and history; high culture and popular culture; society; remembering and forgetting.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Memory is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (500 - 1450); 3. - Early Modern Age (1450 - 1700) ; 4. - Eighteenth Century (1700 - 1800); 5. - Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1900); 6. - Long Twentieth Century (1900 - 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy; religion and history; high culture and popular culture; society; remembering and forgetting.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Memory is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Reviews / Votes
Much could be said about any of the books in this landmark series, whose sum total of chapters from the world's leading scholars will be read and referenced for generations ... Delighting in every memory-inspired flight, fanciful or real, examined in these books awaits the studious reader. * Sun News Tucson *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
300 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 72 mm
Weight
2720 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-40865-4 (9781350408654)
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Persons
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury's successful student book series, Writing History.
Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949 (2005) and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007). He is also the editor of States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (2003).
Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949 (2005) and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007). He is also the editor of States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (2003).
Content
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
Edited by Beate Dignas (University of Oxford, UK)
1. Power and Politics, Boris Chrubasik
2. Time and Space, Ilaria Bultrighini and Stephane Benoist
3. Media and Technology, Elena Franchi
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Hans Baltussen
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Luca Castagnoli
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Anne Gangloff
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Beate Dignas
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Elizabeth Minchin
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages
Edited by Gerald Schwedler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
1. Power and Politics, Jean-Maire Moeglin
2. Time and Space, Joel T. Rosenthal
3. Media and Technology, Anna Adamska
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Lucie Dolezalova and Tamas Visi
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Farkas Gabor Kiss
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Caroline Horch
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Rainer Hugener
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Kai-Michael Sprenger and Gerald Schwedler
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona, Italy)
1. Power and Politics, Jasper van der Steen
2. Time and Space, Katharine Hodgkin
3. Media and Technology, Richard Yeo
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, William E. Engel
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patricia Emison
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Nicola Whyte
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Peter Burke
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Peter Sherlock
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Patrick Hutton (University of Vermont, USA)
1. Power and Politics, Kirsten L. Cooper
2. Time and Space, Gabriel Wick
3. Media and Technology, Patrick H. Hutton
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Tom Simone
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patrick H. Hutton
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Fiona McIntosh-Varjabedian
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jennifer Hillman
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Victoria E. Thompson
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Susan A. Crane (University of Arizona, USA)
1. Power and Politics, Matt Matsuda
2. Time and Space, Nick Yablon
3. Media and Technology, Elizabeth Edwards
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Thomas Dodman
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stan M. Landry
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Kathrin Maurer
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Cecilia Morgan
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Stephane Gerson
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century
Edited by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
1. Power and Politics, Jay Winter
2. Time and Space, Chris Lorenz
3. Media and Technology, Wulf Kansteiner
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Nick Tosh
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stefan Berger
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Patrick Finney
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jeffrey Olick
8. Remembering and Forgetting, William Niven
Edited by Beate Dignas (University of Oxford, UK)
1. Power and Politics, Boris Chrubasik
2. Time and Space, Ilaria Bultrighini and Stephane Benoist
3. Media and Technology, Elena Franchi
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Hans Baltussen
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Luca Castagnoli
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Anne Gangloff
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Beate Dignas
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Elizabeth Minchin
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages
Edited by Gerald Schwedler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
1. Power and Politics, Jean-Maire Moeglin
2. Time and Space, Joel T. Rosenthal
3. Media and Technology, Anna Adamska
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Lucie Dolezalova and Tamas Visi
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Farkas Gabor Kiss
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Caroline Horch
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Rainer Hugener
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Kai-Michael Sprenger and Gerald Schwedler
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona, Italy)
1. Power and Politics, Jasper van der Steen
2. Time and Space, Katharine Hodgkin
3. Media and Technology, Richard Yeo
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, William E. Engel
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patricia Emison
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Nicola Whyte
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Peter Burke
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Peter Sherlock
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Patrick Hutton (University of Vermont, USA)
1. Power and Politics, Kirsten L. Cooper
2. Time and Space, Gabriel Wick
3. Media and Technology, Patrick H. Hutton
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Tom Simone
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patrick H. Hutton
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Fiona McIntosh-Varjabedian
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jennifer Hillman
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Victoria E. Thompson
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Susan A. Crane (University of Arizona, USA)
1. Power and Politics, Matt Matsuda
2. Time and Space, Nick Yablon
3. Media and Technology, Elizabeth Edwards
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Thomas Dodman
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stan M. Landry
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Kathrin Maurer
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Cecilia Morgan
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Stephane Gerson
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century
Edited by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
1. Power and Politics, Jay Winter
2. Time and Space, Chris Lorenz
3. Media and Technology, Wulf Kansteiner
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Nick Tosh
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stefan Berger
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Patrick Finney
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jeffrey Olick
8. Remembering and Forgetting, William Niven