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Author:   Anna Maerker (King's College London, UK) ,  Simon Sleight (King's College London, UK) ,  Adam Sutcliffe (Kings College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9781138905832

ISBN 10:   1138905836
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   11 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Memory, Public Life and the Work of the Historian Adam Sutcliffe, Anna Maerker and Simon Sleight Part I: Approaches to History and Memory 1: Historical Scholarship and Public Memory in Britain: A Case of Oil and Water? John Tosh 2: Challenge or Opportunity? Postcolonialism and the Historian Toby Green 3: Sites of Memory Keir Reeves 4: Race, Migration and National Origins Peter Heather 5: Mobility, Migration and Modern Memory Eureka Henrich 6: Memory and the City Simon Sleight 7: Hagiography and Biography: Narratives of ‘Great Men of Science’ Anna Maerker Part II: Difficult Pasts 8: Remembering Anzac: Australia and World War I Frank Bongiorno 9: Dealing with the Past: History, Memory and the Northern Ireland Troubles Ian McBride 10: Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa Tom Lodge 11: History and Memory in the American South W. Fitzhugh Brundage 12: The Politics of Holocaust Memory Adam Sutcliffe 13: LGBT Histories and the Politics of Identity Laura Gowing

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Anna Maerker is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at King’s College London. Her work on the material culture of medicine and science and on the history of expertise includes Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775–1815 (2011). Simon Sleight is Senior Lecturer in Australian History at King’s College London. His research interests include urban life in the past and the evolution of youth cultures. Recent publications include the co-edited collection Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World (2016). Adam Sutcliffe is Reader in European History at King’s College London. He is the author of Judaism and Enlightenment (2003), and the co-editor, most recently, of Philosemitism in History (2011) and The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 7: The Early Modern World, 1500–1815 (2018).

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