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The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus
Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the land of their ancestors, 'Yerussalem' - …
The Roots of Environmental Consciousness
This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic …
Regimes of Memory
A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of …
Narrative and Genre
Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any …
Art and the Performance of Memory
This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history …
Japanese Bankers in the City of London
The globalisation of the present day world economy means that more and more people are experiencing different cultures through their work. Focusing on the real experiences of …
Contested Pasts
This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory.In the …
On Living Through Soviet Russia
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the …
Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914
Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an …
The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration
War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes which have led to …
Lines of Narrative
This volume brilliantly advances our understanding of the use of narrative in the social sciences. It brings together contemporary work on narrative theory and methods and presents …
Trauma and Life Stories
In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these …