Forgetfulness: making the modern culture of amnesia 9781501324697, 1501324691

Forgetfulness: making the modern culture of amnesia 9781501324697, 1501324691

Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent h

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Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia 9781501324697, 9781501324727, 9781501324710

Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent h

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The Milk of Amnesia 9780228004653

Haunted by the inherited memory of war, one woman's unyielding search through disrupted history and time. Haunted

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The Making of Modern Romanian Culture: Literacy and the Development of National Identity 9780755623488, 9781845110666, 9781780760384

This book challenges the notion that Western ideas were essential to Romanian development. It is a fascinating story of

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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race 9781512822649

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn black

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After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship 9780861933495, 0861933494

A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the

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The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England 9780300134599

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a

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Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual 9780674042339

Posnock offers a new historical perspective on “black intellectuals” as a social category, ranging from Douglass to Patr

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The Making of Modern Japan 9780674039100

Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during th

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I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture 9780295994796

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