Bibliography

Yates, Frances The art of memory
a classic study of mnemonic techniques focusing on the Renaissance, with particular emphasis on Giordano Bruno

Coleman, Janet Ancient and Medieval memories
careful analysis of theories of memory based on "critical texts"

Bergson, H. Matter and memory

Roth, Michael S. "Dying of the past: medical studies of nostalgia in 19th century France, History and Memory 3, no. 1 1991: 5-29.

Chaw, Christopher and Chase M., eds. The imagined past: history and nostalgia this and the above deal with the "invention" of nostalgia

The uses of memory

Le Goff, Jacques History and memory
a collection of essays--the central one outlines changing views of the role of memory

Hutton, P. History as an art of memory

Bourguet, Marie-Noelle, Valensi, Lucette, and Nathan Wachtel Between history and memory Harwood, 1990

Wachtel, Nathan "Memory and History: Introduction" in "Between Memory and History" special issue of History and Anthropology 2 (Oct. 1986)

Nietzsche, F. On the advantages and disadvantages of history for life

The construction of memory: who remembers and how

Halbwachs, Maurice Collective memory
the classic study of the formation of social memory

Connerton, Paul How societies remember

Medieval and Renaissance

Geary, Patrick Phantoms of remembrance
a recent study of medieval memory, which emphasizes the construction of memory and forgetting

Carruthers, Mary The Book of memory
an examination of the cultural dimensions of memory, particularly the connection between memory and literacy

Ciappelli, Giovanni and Patricia Lee Rubin, eds. Art, memory and family in Renaissance Florence

Modern

Nora, Pierre Realms of memory
a central study, one which identifies key centers of public memory–a number of contributions on a rich array of subjects

Matsuda, Matt The memory of the modern
an unusual exploration of the ways moderns use memory, including studies of "revolutionaries and a bronze colossus, a doctor with Europe's finest collection of brains. . ."

Zonabend, Francoise The enduring memory: time and history in a French village
compelling study of collective memory

Schwarcz, Vera Bridge across broken time: Chinese and Jewish cultural memory

The French Revolution

Furet, F. Thinking the French Revolution
an influential discussion of the effect of the Revolution on patterns of thought

Hobsbawm, E. The Marseillaise
short essay on the bicentennial of the Revolution and the politics of its celebration

Yalom, Marilyn Blood sisters
deals with the how women remembered the French Revolution

Ozouf, M. Festivals and the French Revolution

Hunt, L. Politics, culture and class and The family romance
explore the deliberate creation of political identity in part through the cultivation of forgetting

On the Great War

Fussell, Paul The Great War and modern memory
influential (and controversial) argument that the war redefined the way we remember

Eksteins, Modris The rites of spring: the Great War and the birth of the modern age
argues that the Great War reflected and reinforced modernism

Hynes, Samuel A war imagined
stresses continuity and change, seeing that traditional modes of thought persisted after the war just as modernist ideas preceded it

Winter, Jay Sites of memory, sites of mourning
insists on the appeal to tradition in dealing with bereavement; interesting discussion of ways of seeing and commemorating the dead

Moorhouse, G. Hell's foundations: a town, its myths and Gallipoli
focuses on local remembrance of the war

Boorman, D. At the going down of the sun: British First World War memorials

McKernan, M. and P. Stanley, eds., Anzac Day: seventy years on

Prost, Antoine In the wake of war: Les Anciens Combattants and French society, 1914-1939
authoritative examination of French veterans and their role in building the public memory of the war

Whalen, Robert Bitter wounds: German victims of the Great War, 1914-1939

Gregory, Adrian The silence of memory: Armistice Day, 1919-46
follows the creation and the changing uses of Armistice Day as the official occasion for remembrance of the World War I and then World War II

Memoirs: Vera Brittain (a nurse and later League of Nation activist)--three volume memoir; E. Blunden, Undertones of war; C. Carrington, Soldier from the wars returning; J.B. Priestley, Margin released; S. Sassoon--six volumes, three dealing with his soldier self and three with his poetic self, including Memoirs of an infantry officer; F. Manning, Her privates we; Barbusse, H., Under fire; Junger, E. Storm of steel, Robert Graves, Good-bye to all that to identify a few among many

The Holocaust

Lewin, R.G. Witnesses to the Holocaust
a collection of interviews

Maier, Charles S. The unmasterable past and Forever in the shadow of Hitler
the first is a series of articles on aspects of the German response to the Holocaust

Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust testimonies
careful examination of oral history and its differences from written testimony

Hartman, G. H., ed. Holocaust remembrance
articles on a variety of witnesses

Hartman, G., ed. Bitburg in moral and political perspective
deals with response to U.S./German commemoration of SS

Friedlander, S. Memory, history, and the extermination of the Jews of Europe
general study by a prominent authority See also his When memory comes (a memoir) and Probing the limits of representation

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre The assassins of memory, Columbia Univ. Press, 1993

Bower, Tom Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons" London Corgi 1984 rev. 1985

Morgan, Ted The French, the Germans, the Jews, the Klaus Barbie Trial and the City of Lyon 1940-45

films: Shoah, Klaus Barbie, the Holocaust series, Schindler's List, for example

memoirs: many, including others by Primo Levi, including Survival at Auschwitz, the works of Elie Wiesel; B. Bettelheim's, The informed heart; C. Delbo, Auschwitz and after; Brostoff, Anita, ed., Flares of memory: stories of childhood during the Holocaust

Fascism and War

Rousso, Henry The Vichy syndrome
a very influential work on the construction of the public memory of Vichy--a model much discussed and often cited Useful list of films dealing with Vichy

Wilson, K., ed. Forging the collective memory
collection of articles dealing with the ways historians contributed to the shaping of official memory during the two wars

Farmer, Sarah Martyred village
interesting examination of how the French remember the massacre of the inhabitants of the village of Ouradour

Nossiter, Adam The Algeria hotel
readable examination of how the French now regard Vichy and the occupation–based on extensive interviews

Passerini, L. Memory and totalitarianism
number of interesting articles on a range of subjects

Bosworth, R.J.B. Italian fascism: history, memory, and representation

Film, literature and memory

Santner, Eric Stranded objects: mourning, memory, and film in postwar Germany Cornell U. Press 1990

Krell, David On memory, reminiscence, and writing: on the verge Univ. of Indiana Press, 1990

Commemoration

Pope-Hennessy, John The portrait in the Renaissance

Aries, Philippe Images of man and death
deals with tombs

Panofsky, Erwin Tomb sculpture

Balas, Edith Micheangelo's Medici Chapel
detailed interpretation of the meaning of the design

Cohn, S. The cult of remembrance and the Black Death
much more focused study of six Italian cities

Boase, I.S.R. Death in the Middle Ages
some reference to ways of remembrance

Winter, J. Sites of memory, sites of mourning
emphasizes WWI

Mosse, George Fallen soldiers
examination of the construction of monuments to the WWI dead

Young, J.E. The texture of memory
comprehensive discussion of the politics of Holocaust memorials

Young, J.E., ed. The art of memory: Holocaust memorials in history

Cole, Tim Selling the Holocaust: from Auschwitz to Schindler

Gillis, J. Commemorations: the politics of national identity

Berenbaum, Michael The history of the Holocaust as told in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial museum

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