| Description |
xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The memory of catastrophe / edited by Peter Gray and Kendrik Oliver. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction--Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver -- Remembering the English Civil War--Mark Stoyle -- 'Diabolical Design': Charleston Elites, the 1822 Slave Insurrection and the Discourse of the Supernatural--P.A. Cramer -- Memory and the Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine--Peter Gray -- 'The Greatest and the Worst': Dominant and Subaltern Memories of the Dos Bocas Well Fire of 1908--Glen D. Kuecker -- The Titanic and the Commodification of Catastrophe--James Guimond -- Doctors and Trauma in World War One: The Response of British Military Psychiatrists--Edgar Jones -- Commemorations of the Siege of Leningrad: A Catastrophe in Memory and Myth--Lisa A. Kirschenbaum -- the Missing Camps of Aktion Reinhard: The Judicial Displacement of a Mass Murder--Donald Bloxham -- Memory and Authenticity: The Case of Binjamin Wilkomirski--Andrea Reiter -- Partition Memory and Multiple Identities in the Champaran District of Bihar, India--Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- Bodies Do Count: American Nurses Mourn the Catastrophe of Vietnam--Carol Acton -- 'Not Much of a Place Anymore': The Reception and Memory of the Massacre at My Lai--Kendrick Oliver -- Remembering Vukovar, Forgetting Vukovar: Constructing National Identity Through the Memory of Catastrophe in Croatia--Rose Lindsey -- Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Sawoniuk? British Memory of the Holocaust and Kosovo, Spring 1999--Tony Kushner -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Disasters, Memory Social aspects, Suffering, Genocide, War and society |
| Summary |
Memories of catastrophes - those which occur naturally and those which are consequences of human actions - loom large in the modern consciousness. This volume draws on the latest scholarship to investigate this phenomenon in both contemporary and historical contexts |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Memory.
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Collective memory.
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Memory -- Social aspects.
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Genocide.
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Suffering.
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War and society.
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Disasters.
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| Author |
Gray, Peter, 1965-
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Oliver, Kendrick, 1971-
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| LC no. |
2003064856 |
| ISBN |
0719063442 |
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0719063450 paperback |
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