Author: Matthew Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350190470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.
Memory and Modern British Politics
Author: Matthew Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350190470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350190470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.
The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics
Author: Philip J. Brendese
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580464238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory'songoing impact on democratic horizons.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580464238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory'songoing impact on democratic horizons.
History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics
Author: Emily Robinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719086311
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics explores the use of the past in modern British politics. It examines party political perspectives on British history and the historical process and also looks at the ways in which memory is instituted within the parties in practice, through archives, written histories, and commemorations. It focuses in particular on a number of explicit negotiations over historical narratives: the creation of the National Curriculum for History, Conservative attempts to re-assess their historical role in 1997, the assertion of a "lost" social democratic tradition by the SDP and New Labour and the collapse of the Communist Party of Great Britain’s narrative memory in 1988-91. This book shows how history, heritage, and tradition are used to present parliamentary politics as intrinsically "historic" and suggests that the disappearance of active political pasts leaves contemporary politicians unable to speak of radically different futures.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719086311
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics explores the use of the past in modern British politics. It examines party political perspectives on British history and the historical process and also looks at the ways in which memory is instituted within the parties in practice, through archives, written histories, and commemorations. It focuses in particular on a number of explicit negotiations over historical narratives: the creation of the National Curriculum for History, Conservative attempts to re-assess their historical role in 1997, the assertion of a "lost" social democratic tradition by the SDP and New Labour and the collapse of the Communist Party of Great Britain’s narrative memory in 1988-91. This book shows how history, heritage, and tradition are used to present parliamentary politics as intrinsically "historic" and suggests that the disappearance of active political pasts leaves contemporary politicians unable to speak of radically different futures.
Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500
Author: Carl J. Griffin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319742434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book offers the first systematic study of the multiple and contested ways in which protest is remembered. Drawing on work in social and cultural history, cultural and historical geography, psychology, anthropology, critical heritage studies, and memory studies, Remembering Protest focuses on the dynamic and lived nature of past protests, asking how conflicted communities and individuals made sense of and mobilized protest past in forging the future. Written by several of the leading historians and historical geographers of protest in early modern and modern Britain, the chapters span the period from 1500 to c.1850 while also speaking to the politics of past protests in the present. In so doing, it also offers the first showcase of the variety of approaches that comprises the vibrant and intellectually fecund ‘new protest history’. Empirically rich but conceptually sophisticated, this book will appeal to those with an interest in protest history, and early modern and modern British history, and historical geography more generally.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319742434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book offers the first systematic study of the multiple and contested ways in which protest is remembered. Drawing on work in social and cultural history, cultural and historical geography, psychology, anthropology, critical heritage studies, and memory studies, Remembering Protest focuses on the dynamic and lived nature of past protests, asking how conflicted communities and individuals made sense of and mobilized protest past in forging the future. Written by several of the leading historians and historical geographers of protest in early modern and modern Britain, the chapters span the period from 1500 to c.1850 while also speaking to the politics of past protests in the present. In so doing, it also offers the first showcase of the variety of approaches that comprises the vibrant and intellectually fecund ‘new protest history’. Empirically rich but conceptually sophisticated, this book will appeal to those with an interest in protest history, and early modern and modern British history, and historical geography more generally.
Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England
Author: Harriet Lyon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.
British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
Author: Lucy Noakes
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.
History and Memory in Modern Ireland
Author: Ian McBride
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A 2001 volume of essays about the relationship between past and present in Irish society.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A 2001 volume of essays about the relationship between past and present in Irish society.
A European Memory?
Author: Małgorzata Pakier
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe--with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences--was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe's past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe--with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences--was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe's past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.
British Politics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Anthony Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199661103
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book presents an introduction to the evolution and history of the British political system.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199661103
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book presents an introduction to the evolution and history of the British political system.
Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727
Author: Edward Vallance
Publisher: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780719097034
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national 'mood'. Covering addressing campaigns from the late-Cromwellian to the early Georgian period, the book explores the production, presentation, subscription and publication of these texts. It argues that beneath partisan attacks on the credibility of loyal addresses lay a broad consensus about the validity of this political practice. Ultimately, loyal addresses acknowledged the existence of a 'political public' but did so in a way which fundamentally conceded the legitimacy of the social and political hierarchy. They constituted a political form perfectly suited to a fundamentally unequal society in which political life continued to be centered on the monarchy.
Publisher: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780719097034
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national 'mood'. Covering addressing campaigns from the late-Cromwellian to the early Georgian period, the book explores the production, presentation, subscription and publication of these texts. It argues that beneath partisan attacks on the credibility of loyal addresses lay a broad consensus about the validity of this political practice. Ultimately, loyal addresses acknowledged the existence of a 'political public' but did so in a way which fundamentally conceded the legitimacy of the social and political hierarchy. They constituted a political form perfectly suited to a fundamentally unequal society in which political life continued to be centered on the monarchy.