History and Popular Memory
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-16636-2 (ISBN)
Although vitally important to historians, this distinction is routinely blurred in people's minds, and the historian's truth often cannot compete with the power of a compelling story from the past, even when it has been seriously distorted by myth or political manipulation. Cohen concludes by suggesting that the patterns of interaction he probes, given their near universality, may well be rooted in certain human propensities that transcend cultural difference.
Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History Emeritus at Wellesley College and a long-time associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His books include Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past and the award-winning History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth.
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Battle of Kosovo of 1389 and Serbian Nationalism 2. The Fall of Masada and Modern Jewish Memory 3. Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist Policy, and the Story of King Goujian 4. The Enigma of the Appeal of Joan of Arc in Wartime France 5. Artful Propaganda in World War II: Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky and Olivier's Henry V Conclusion Notes Index
Zusatzinfo | <B>B&W Illus.: </B>19,, <B>Maps: </B>5, |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-231-16636-2 / 0231166362 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-16636-2 / 9780231166362 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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