Geppert / Unknown / Muller Sites of imperial memory

Commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1189-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 119, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

Addresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Geppert, Dominik

Muller, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Beyond national memory. Nora’s Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world – Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller
PART I: Monuments
2. Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery – Xavier Guégan
3. Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon – Shraddha Kumbhojkar
4. The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history – James Koranyi
5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan’s post-imperial commemoration – Barak Kushner
PART II: Heroes and villains
6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and French ‘heroic imperialists’ as sites of memory – Berny Sèbe
7. Jan Pieterszoon Coen: a man they love to hate. The first governor-general of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial site of memory – Victor Enthoven
8. The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain – Richard Goebelt
9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory and empire – John Stuart
10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia – Stefan Creuzberger
PART III: Remembering and forgetting
11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the raj in post-war India – Maria Misra
12. ‘Forgive and forget’? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory – Winfried Speitkamp
13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin – Katja Kaiser
14. Recollections of rubber – Frank Uekötter
Select bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geppert Dominik:
Dominik Geppert is Professor of Modern History at the University of BonnMuller Frank:
Frank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St AndrewsDominik Geppert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bonn

Frank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews