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(Re)Visualizing National History : Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium
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(Re)Visualizing National History is a unique and interdisciplinary volume that offers insights on the dilemmas of present-day European culture, manifestations of nationalism in Europe, and the deba...
(Re)Visualizing National History is a unique and interdisciplinary volume that offers insights on the dilemmas of present-day European culture, manifestations of nationalism in Europe, and the debates surrounding museums as sites for the representation of politics and history.
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- Creator
- Robin Ostow
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2008
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442687257, 1442687258
- OCLC
- on1013947682
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the Twenty-First Century -- Part One. The Twenty-First Century: New Exhibits and New Partnerships -- 1. Exhibition as Film -- Part Two. Reconfiguring National History: Centralized and Local Strategies -- 2. The Terror of the House -- 3. Putting Contested History on Display: The Uses of the Past in Northern Ireland -- Part Three. Restoring National History with International Participation -- 4. Museums, Multiculturalism, and the Remaking of Postwar Sarajevo -- 5. Building a Jewish Museum in Germany in the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Remusealizing Jewish History in Warsaw: The Privatization and Externalization of Nation Building -- Part Four. Displaying War, Genocide, and the Nation: From Ottawa to Berlin, 2005 -- 7. Constructing the Canadian War Museum/Constructing the Landscape of a Canadian Identity -- 8. Peter Eisenman's Design for Berlin's Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe: A Juror's Report in Three Parts -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter