The past in the present : the construction of Polish history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Traba, Robert
Other Authors: Shannon, Alex (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Polish
Published: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, [2015]
Series:Eastern European culture, politics and societies ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Polish dilemmas : practice and theory
  • Two dimensions of history : an opening sketch
  • History as a space for dialogue
  • Poland's Kresy (Eastern Borderlands) : realms of memory in the process of cultural reproduction
  • Constructing memory : a semantic analysis of Polish celebrations on the anniversary of Grunwald
  • Stefan Czarnowski and the continued relevance of his theories in contemporary historical thought : a sketch portrait of a sociologist
  • Part II. Poles and Germans : theory
  • "The other side of memory" : historical experiences and their remembrance in Central-Eastern Europe
  • Realms of memory (lieux de mémoire) in the context of German-Polish relations
  • Quo vadis regional history?
  • Cultural memory, communicative memory : theory and practice in the work of Jan Assmann
  • Golo Mann : a turn toward narrative history and an "obsession with Germany"
  • Part III. Poles and Germans : the empirical world
  • On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study
  • In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin
  • Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop
  • Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz)
  • "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia
  • The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II
  • "It was only a film!" : three images of conflicts and dialogues of memory.