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The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing

How the Interest in Memory Has Influenced Our Understanding of History

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  1. Patrick H. Hutton

    1. University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

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  • Offers a thorough overview of the relationship between collective memory and history
  • Examines how scholars have pioneered research on memory and history, considering topics such as technology, public remembrance, and trauma

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Historiographical Background to the Memory Phenomenon

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 1-27

  3. Pierre Nora’s Les Lieux de mémoire 30 Years After

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 29-48

  4. The Politics of Commemoration

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 49-72

  5. Cultural Memory: From the Threshold of Literacy to the Digital Age

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 73-100

  6. From History to Historical Remembrance in Holocaust Studies

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 101-128

  7. Nostalgia and the Mnemonics of Time

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 129-147

  8. Negotiating the Boundary between Representation and Experience

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 149-175

  9. The Memory Phenomenon as a Time in Historical Scholarship

    • Patrick H. Hutton
    Pages 177-211

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-234
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About this book

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust). He follows with an analysis of the implications of this scholarship for our thinking about history itself, with attention to such issues as the mnemonics of historical time, and the encounter between representation and experience in historical understanding. His book provides insight into the way interest in the concept of memory - as opposed to long-standing alternatives, such as myth, tradition, and heritage- has opened new vistas for scholarship not only in cultural history but also in shared ventures in memory studies in related fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

    Patrick H. Hutton

About the author

Patrick Hutton is Professor Emeritus of History in the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Vermont, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing

  • Book Subtitle: How the Interest in Memory Has Influenced Our Understanding of History

  • Authors: Patrick H. Hutton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49466-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49464-1Published: 20 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69737-3Published: 04 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49466-5Published: 15 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 234

  • Topics: Memory Studies, Intellectual Studies, Philosophy of History

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