The past in the present : the construction of Polish history - Traba, Robert; Shannon, Alex; ebrary, Inc. (Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, 2015)
Part I. Polish dilemmas : practice and theory -- Two dimensions of history : an opening sketch -- History as a space for dialogue -- Poland's Kresy (Eastern Borderlands) : realms of memory in the process of cultural reproduction -- Constructing memory : a semantic analysis of Polish celebrations on the anniversary of Grunwald -- Stefan Czarnowski and the continued relevance of his theories in contemporary historical thought : a sketch portrait of a sociologist -- Part II. Poles and Germans : theory -- "The other side of memory" : historical experiences and their remembrance in Central-Eastern Europe -- Realms of memory (lieux de macuteemoire) in the context of German-Polish relations -- Quo vadis regional history? -- Cultural memory, communicative memory : theory and practice in the work of Jan Assmann -- Golo Mann : a turn toward narrative history and an "obsession with Germany" -- Part III. Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Drumlobnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" : three images of conflicts and dialogues of memory.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Historiography -- Poland; Memory -- Political aspects -- Poland; Poland -- Historiography; Electronic books