Lebow / Kansteiner / Fogu The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8833-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lebow, Richard Ned

Kansteiner, Wulf

Fogu, Claudio

Weitere Mitwirkende

Uhl, Heidemarie

Golsan, Richard J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: ix

The Memory of Politics in Postwar Europe / Richard Ned Lebow 1

From Victim Myth to Co-Responsibility Thesis: Nazi Rule, World War II, and the Holocaust in Austrian Memory / Heidemarie Uhl 40

The Legacy of World War II in France: Mapping the Discourses of Memory / Richard J. Golsan 73

Losing the War, Winning the Memory Battle: The Legacy of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany / Wulf Kansteiner 102

Italiani brava gente: The Legacy of Fascist Historical Culture on Italian Politics of Memory / Claudio Fogu 147

New Threads on an Old Loom: National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska 177

What Is So Special about Switzerland? Wartime Memory as a National Ideology in the Cold War Era / Regula Ludi 210

Past as Present, Myth, or History? Discourses of Time and The Great Fatherland War / Thomas C. Wolfe 249

The Politics of Memory and Poetics of History / Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner 284

Bibliography 311

Contributors 355

Index 357

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Ned Lebow is James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of many books, including The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests, and Orders.Wulf Kansteiner is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. He is the author of In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz.Claudio Fogu teaches in the French and Italian Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Historic Imaginary: Politics of History in Fascist Italy.