Plastic Pasts: Sited Memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille 9819956161, 9789819956166

Plastic Pasts: Sited Memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille 9819956161, 9789819956166

This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the

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African pasts: Memory and history in African literatures 9781526130792

Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other

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Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India 9780520940598

Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and co

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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory 9781503620308

Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memor

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The French in Algiers

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Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism 9780415247467, 0415247462

This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the US, UK, and Australia in the late 19th centur

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Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960 9780231511438

The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successful

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Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980 9781442616820

Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario through the experience of its in

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Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory 0253312523, 9780253312525

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Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television 9781350187658, 9781350187665, 9781350187672

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