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Informationen zum Autor Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, USA. He is the author of nine books, a number of which have been translated across five different languages, including Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008), Friedrich Nietzsche and the Death of God (2007) and Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004). He is also the co-editor, along with Alon Confino, of The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture (2002) and Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997), with Charles Stewart. Klappentext A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in the in the Nineteenth Century explores memory in the 'long nineteenth century'. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in Nineteenth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the 'long nineteenth century'. Vorwort A thematic overview of the cultural history of memory in the 19th century. Zusammenfassung A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in the in the Nineteenth Century explores memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in Nineteenth Century is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the ‘long nineteenth century’. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index ...
