Identity and Loss of Historical Memory: The Destruction of Archives 9783034325080, 9783034325066, 9783034325097, 9783034325073, 3034325088

Identity and Loss of Historical Memory: The Destruction of Archives (Identities / Identités / Identidades) (English and French Edition) 9783034325066, 9783034325073, 9783034325097, 9783034325080, 3034325061

Archives are the documentary memory of each society and so they become one of the pillars of its identity. Its destructi

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Living with Alzheimer's: Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness 9781479855377

News of Alzheimer’s disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people caring f

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South African performance and archives of memory 9781526103239

This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events

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Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity 1560009020, 9781560009023

When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuu

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Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy 9783839446560

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as w

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Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory 9780226277479

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First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory 9780812202885

Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative appro

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Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory 9780226277479

In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman

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The Dresden Firebombing: Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction 9780755623778, 9781350159075

The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945,

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Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age 9780812298239

Death of the Desert offers a fresh examination of Archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria's banishment of the so-called

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