The sins of the fathers : Germany, memory, method / Jeffrey K. Olick.
The sins of the fathers : Germany, memory, method / Jeffrey K. Olick.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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G 2017/1886
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English
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x, 517 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction. Placing memory in Germany -- The sociology of collective memory -- Prologues: the origins of West German memory -- The reliable nation. Bonn is not Weimar -- Expiation and explanation -- Germany in the West -- The return of the repressed -- The reliable nation -- The moral nation. Seed...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying...
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The sins of the fathers : Germany, memory, method / Jeffrey K. Olick.
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-495) and index.
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G 2017/1886
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74VKVaKkqvWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaKkqvWy
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ISBN
9780226386492 (cloth ; alk. paper)
022638649X (cloth ; alk. paper)
DDC
909.0943
MMS ID
991024100917702626
