Entrée principale:

Williams, Paul Harvey.

Titre et auteur:

Memorial museums : the global rush to commemorate atrocities / Paul Williams.

Publication:

Oxford : Berg, ©2007.

Description:

vii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Very different proposition : introducing the memorial museum -- The surviving object : presence and absence in memorial museums -- Photographic memory : images from calamitous histories -- Rocks and hard places : location and spatiality in memorial museums -- Diplomatic assignment : the political fortunes of memorial museums -- The memorial museum identity complex : victimhood, culpability, and responsibility -- Looming disaster : memorial museums and the shaping of historic consciousness -- Fighting the forgetful future.

Résumé:

This work is the first of its kind to 'map' these new institutions and cultural spaces, which, although varying widely in size, style, and political situation, are nonetheless united in their desire to promote peace, tolerance, and the avoidance of future violence.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781845204884 (hbk.)
1845204883 (hbk.)
1845204891 (pbk.)
9781845204891 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Memorialization.
Museum techniques.
Memorials Philosophy.
Atrocities History 20th century Historiography.
Atrocities History 21st century Historiography.
Holocaust memorials.
Historic sites.
Memorials Political aspects.
Museums Political aspects.
Commémorations.
Muséologie.
Atrocités Histoire 20e siècle Historiographie.
Atrocités Histoire 21e siècle Historiographie.
Monuments de l'Holocauste.
Lieux historiques.
Musées Aspect politique.
commemorations (events)
museology.
historic towns.
historic sites.
Atrocities Historiography
Musealisering.
Gruweldaden.
Massamoorden.
Atrocities.
Massacres.
Museum.
Memory.
Historiska museer.
Grymheter museer.
Historiska minnesmärken museer.

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 261865
Cote: BIB 192912
Statut: Disponible