A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth Century

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. Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at The Nottingham Trent University, UK.

List of Illustrations
General Editors’ Preface
Introduction
1. Power and Politics
2. Time and Space
3. Media and Technology
4. Knowledge: Science and Education
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History
6. High Culture and Popular Culture
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday
8. Remembering and Forgetting
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index