Conflicted pasts and national identities : narratives of war and conflict / edited by Michael Böss.

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War and conflicts have always played a significant role in defining national identities, often with reference to events that happened centuries ago. The role of passing on collective memories of these types of events has become even more complex in a globalizing world, where new configurations of cosmopolitan memories challenge more locally and nationally based memories. The many aspects of societies remembering and forgetting call for interdisciplinary studies. This book reflects this effort. With reference to current theories of cultural memory, it explores how memories of war and conflict are passed on from generation to generation, how these complex processes have transformed and shaped collective identities, and how they are still inform national conversations.-- Provided by Publisher.

Introduction : remembering the nation in war and conflict / Michael Böss, associate professor of history and social science at Aarhus University -- Narrative engagement and narrative templates / James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow professor in arts & sciences at Washington University in St Louis -- Memory before and after nationalism : a revision / Judith Pollman, professor of Early Modern Dutch history at Leiden University in the Netherlands -- History in the clutch of memory : the failed Swedish assault on Copenhagen, 11 February 1659 in commemorative culture 1659-2009 / Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen, associate professor of history at Saxo Institute, Copenhagen University -- Australian generations? : transformative events, memory, and generational identity / Alistair Thomson, professor of history at Monash University, Melbourne -- Generational change and conflicted memories of World War II in Australia / Paula Hamilton, professor of history at University of Technology, Sydney -- Self, nation, and generational memory : a case study of trauma and self-recovery / Michael Böss, associate professor of history and social science at Aarhus University -- The loss of living memory : the cultural reception of Harry Patch (2008-2009), the last British veteran of the First World War / MarleneA. Briggs, assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia -- Historians and the politics of commemoration : an Irish case study / Tom Dunne, professor emeritus of history at University College Cork -- National memory on fire! : the case of The Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945 / Esben Kjeldbæk, former Head of The Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945 -- Changing narratives of war : the World War I monument in Aarhus / Bjarne Søndergaard Bendtsen, Ph.D. -- The Swedish Miners' Strike of 1969-1970 : remembering conflict in a context of consensus / Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Ph.D. student at the Department of History, Stockholm University.

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