Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the changing practices of modern museums, this important new work explores

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed t

This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies. Whether in a stable democracy

This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war a

During the Mao era, China’s museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, a