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Generations and collective memory
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Generations and collective memory / Amy Corning and Howard Schuman.
ISBN
9780226282527
022628252X
9780226282664
022628266X
9780226282831
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
xiv, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 20, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the meanings of collective memory and generation
Revising collective memories
Collective memories and counter-memories of Christopher Columbus
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: sex, slavery, and science
Abraham Lincoln: "honest Abe" versus "the great emancipator"
The critical years and other sources of collective memory
The critical years hypothesis: the idea and the evidence
Exploring collective memory in eight countries
Beyond critical years effects
Does emigration affect collective memory?
Generational experience of war and the development of new attitudes
Autobiographical memory versus collective memory
Collective knowledge: findings and "losings"
Commemoration matters: the past in the present
Closing reflections.
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