Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
Edited by Beate Dignas (University of Oxford, UK)

1. Power and Politics, Boris Chrubasik
2. Time and Space, Ilaria Bultrighini and Stéphane Benoist
3. Media and Technology, Elena Franchi
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Hans Baltussen
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Luca Castagnoli
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Anne Gangloff
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Beate Dignas
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Elizabeth Minchin

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages
Edited by Gerald Schwedler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

1. Power and Politics, Jean-Maire Moeglin
2. Time and Space, Joel T. Rosenthal
3. Media and Technology, Anna Adamska
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Lucie Doležalová and Tamás Visi
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Farkas Gábor Kiss
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Caroline Horch
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Rainer Hugener
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Kai-Michael Sprenger and Gerald Schwedler

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona, Italy)

1. Power and Politics, Jasper van der Steen
2. Time and Space, Katharine Hodgkin
3. Media and Technology, Richard Yeo
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, William E. Engel
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patricia Emison
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Nicola Whyte
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Peter Burke
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Peter Sherlock

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Patrick Hutton (University of Vermont, USA)

1. Power and Politics, Kirsten L. Cooper
2. Time and Space, Gabriel Wick
3. Media and Technology, Patrick H. Hutton
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Tom Simone
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patrick H. Hutton
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jennifer Hillman
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Victoria E. Thompson

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Susan A. Crane (University of Arizona, USA)

1. Power and Politics, Matt Matsuda
2. Time and Space, Nick Yablon
3. Media and Technology, Elizabeth Edwards
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Thomas Dodman
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stan M. Landry
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Kathrin Maurer
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Cecilia Morgan
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Stéphane Gerson

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century
Edited by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

1. Power and Politics, Jay Winter
2. Time and Space, Chris Lorenz
3. Media and Technology, Wulf Kansteiner
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Nick Tosh
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stefan Berger
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Patrick Finney
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jeffrey Olick
8. Remembering and Forgetting, William Niven

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Examines 2,500 years of memory from a variety of perspectives in social and cultural history.

About the Author

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury’s successful student book series, Writing History.

Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949 (2005) and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (2007). He is also the editor of States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (2003).

Reviews

Much could be said about any of the books in this landmark series, whose sum total of chapters from the world’s leading scholars will be read and referenced for generations … Delighting in every memory-inspired flight, fanciful or real, examined in these books awaits the studious reader.
*Sun News Tucson*