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(Re)Visualizing National History is a unique and interdisciplinary volume that offers insights on the dilemmas of present-day European culture, manifestations of nationalism in Europe, and the debates surrounding museums as sites for the representation of politics and history.

Title (Re)visualizing national history : museums and national identities in Europe in the new millennium / editor, Robin Ostow.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Creation Date 2008
Notes Includes index.
Issued also in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction. Museums and national identities in Europe in the twenty-first century / Robin Ostow -- pt. 1. The twenty-first century : new exhibits and new partnerships. Exhibition as film / Mieke Bal -- pt. 2. Reconfiguring national history : centralized and local strategies. The terror of the House / Istvaþn Reþv -- Putting contested history on display : the uses of the past in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- pt. 3. Restoring national history with international participation. Museums, multiculturalism, and the remaking of postwar Sarajevo / Edin Hajdarpas?icþ -- Building a Jewish museum in Germany in the twenty-first century / Bernhard Purin -- Remusealizing Jewish history in Warsaw : the privatization and externalization of nation building / Robin Ostow -- pt. 4. Displaying war, genocide, and the nation : from Ottawa to Berlin, 2005. Constructing the Canadian War Museum/constructing the landscape of a Canadian identity / Reesa Greenberg -- Peter Eisenman's design for Berlin's memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe : a juror's report in three parts / James E. Young.
Series German and European Studies
Extent 1 online resource (240 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2008
National Library system number 997010704855805171
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