Commemorations:
The Politics of National Identity
Edited by John R. Gillis

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction: Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship	3
Ch. I	Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept?	27
Ch. II	Identity, Heritage, and History	41
Ch. III	National Memory in Early Modern England	61
Ch. IV	Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland	74
Ch. V	The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq	90
Ch. VI	The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel	105
Ch. VII	The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument	127
Ch. VIII	Memory and Naming in the Great War	150
Ch. IX	The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War	168
Ch. X	Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War I	186
Ch. XI	Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany	215
Ch. XII	Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	239
Ch. XIII	Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory	258
	Index	281

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