Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION: John R. Gillis Memory and Identity: The Historyof a Relationship -- PART ONE: The Problem of Identity and Memory -- CHAPTER I: Richard Handler Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept? -- CHAPTER II: David Lowenthal Identity, Heritage, and History -- PART TWO: Memory in the Constructionof National Identities -- CHAPTER III: David Cressy National Memory in Early Modern England -- CHAPTER IV: John Bodnar Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland -- CHAPTER V: Eric Davis The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq -- CHAPTER VI: Yael Zerubavel The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel -- PART THREE : Memories of Warand Wars over Memory -- CHAPTER VII: Kirk Savage The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument -- CHAPTER VIII: Thomas W. Laqueur Memory and Naming in the Great War -- CHAPTER IX: G. Kurt Piehler The War Dead and the Gold Star: AmericanCommemoration of the First World War -- CHAPTER X: Daniel J. Sherman Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I -- PART FOUR : Politics of Memoryand Identity -- CHAPTER XI: Rudy J. Koshar Building Pasts: Historic Preservation andIdentity in Twentieth-Century Germany -- CHAPTER XII: Herman Lebovics Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of theTwentieth Century -- CHAPTER III: Claudia Koonz Between Memory and Oblivion:Concentration Camps in German Memory -- Index