History and memory

In Recent Years,?memory? Has Become A Central, Though Also A Controversial, Concept In Historical Studies - A Term That Denotes Both A New And Distinctive Field Of Study And A Fresh Way Of Conceptualizing History As A Field Of Inquiry More Generally. This Book, Which Is Aimed Both At Specialists And At Students, Provides Historians With An Accessible And Stimulating Introduction To Debates And Theories About Memory, And To The Range Of Approaches That Have Been Taken To The Study Of It In History And Other Disciplinescontributing In A Wide-ranging Way To Debate On Some Of The Central Conceptu. 9780719060779; 9780719060779; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 History And Memory:an Imagined Relationship; 2 Memory And The Individual; 3 Remembering In Society; 4 Memory And Transmission; 5 Social Memory Andthe Collective Past; Index. Geoffrey Cubitt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.