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Imperialism -- History.
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Colonies -- History.
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Collective memory.
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Descript |
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
1. Beyond national memory. Nora's Lieux de Mémoire across an imperial world / Dominik Geppert and Frank Lorenz Müller -- PART I: Monuments -- 2. Transmissible sites: monuments, memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery / Xavier Guégan -- 3. Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the Obelisk at Koregaon / Shraddha Kumbhojkar -- 4. The thirteen martyrs of Arad: a monumental Hungarian history / James Koranyi -- 5. Heroes, victims, and the quest for peace: war monuments and the contradictions of Japan's post-imperial commemoration / Barak Kushner -- PART II: Heroes and villains -- 6. From the penny press to the plinth: British and French 'heroic imperialists' as sites of memory / Berny Sèbe -- 7. Jan Pieterszoon Coen: a man they love to hate. The first governor-general of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial site of memory / Victor Enthoven -- 8. The memory of Lord Clive in Britain and beyond: imperial hero and villain / Richard Goebelt -- 9. David Livingstone, British protestant missions, memory and empire / John Stuart -- 10. Freedom fighter and anti-tsarist rebel: Imam Shamil and imperial memory in Russia / Stefan Creuzberger -- PART III: Remembering and forgetting -- 11. From Nehruvian neglect to Bollywood heroes: the memory of the raj in post-war India / Maria Misra -- 12. 'Forgive and forget'? The Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan collective memory / Winfried Speitkamp -- 13. Exploration and exploitation: German colonial botany at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin / Katja Kaiser -- 14. Recollections of rubber / Frank Uekötter -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
Note |
In English. |
Alt author |
Geppert, Dominik, 1970- editor.
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Müller, Frank Lorenz, 1970- editor.
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Manchester University Press, publisher.
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ISBN |
9781526111883 (eBook) |
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9781526111890 (eBook) |
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9780719090813 (hardback) |
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