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1 online resource (334 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Cultural History |
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Routledge studies in cultural history.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: British Holocaust Consciousness-from Past into Present; PART I Education; 2 'Holocaust Education', but Not as We Know It; 3 The Holocaust in the Curriculum; PART II Memorialisation, Musealization, Commemoration; 4 'Private' Spaces of Memory?: Hyde Park and the Holocaust Centre; 5 The Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition; 6 Holocaust Memorial Day; PART III The Cultural Hinterland; 7 A Cultural 'Turn'; 8 Cultural Tensions; 9 Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain has an annually commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. What has prompted this development, how has it unfolded, and why has it happened now? How does it relate to Britain's post-war history, its contemporary concerns, and the wider ""globalisation"" of Holocaust memory? What are the multiple shapes |
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Print version record |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion, British
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Public opinion -- Great Britain
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Collective memory -- Great Britain
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Collective memory.
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Historiography.
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Public opinion.
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Public opinion, British.
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Study skills.
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Judenvernichtung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135046514 |
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1135046514 |
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9780203484210 |
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0203484215 |
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