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Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have
Memory's Library
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and us
The Great War and Modern Memory
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A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism.
The Memory of the Modern
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Authors: Matt K. Matsuda
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Matsuda proves his argument by visiting a remarkable array of "memory-sites": the destruction of a monument to Napoleon during the 1871 Paris Commune; the frant
Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
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For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important