Realms of Memory: Traditions

Realms of Memory: Traditions

Author: Pierre Nora

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9780231106344

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Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.


Inventing the French Revolution `

Inventing the French Revolution `

Author: Keith Michael Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-01-26

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780521385787

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A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'.