History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present

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Contents
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Notes on contributors
Introduction: memory, public life and the work of the historian
PART I Approaches to history and memory
	1 Historical scholarship and public memory in Britain: a case of oil and water?
	2 Challenge or opportunity? Postcolonialism and the historian
	3 Sites of memory
	4 Race, migration and national origins
	5 Mobility, migration and modern memory
	6 Memory and the city
	7 Hagiography and biography: narratives of \'great men of science\'
PART II Difficult pasts
	8 Remembering Anzac: Australia and World War I
	9 Dealing with the past: history, memory and the Northern Ireland Troubles
	10 Truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa
	11 History and memory in the American South
	12 The politics of Holocaust memory
	13 LGBT histories and the politics of identity
Index