Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories: A Triangular Relationship....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Physical Space, Urban Space, Civic Space: Rotterdam’s Inhabitants and their Appropriation of the City’s Past....Pages 27-50
The Politics of Street Names: Local, National, Transnational Budapest....Pages 51-71
Transfer Zones: German and Global Suffering in Dresden....Pages 72-93
Manufacturing Local Identification Behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol after the Second World War....Pages 94-114
The Local Past in a Contested Borderland: Commemoration in Strasbourg Between France, Germany and Europe....Pages 115-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Displacements and Hidden Histories: Museums, Locality and the British Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade....Pages 139-161
Structures of Collective Memory: The Last Bannerman in Local Japan....Pages 162-179
Remembering Father Cícero: Local, Regional and National Memory in North-eastern Brazil....Pages 180-199
‘Reconciliation across the Graves’? The German War Cemetery at Ysselsteyn as a Place of Remembrance between Local and (Inter)national Areas of Conflict 1945–2000....Pages 200-220
Local and Counter-Memories of Socialism in Post-Socialist Romania....Pages 221-243
Greetings from Borgerokko: An Antwerp Neighbourhood as a National Icon of Globalization and Anti-globalism....Pages 244-257
Memories on the Move: The Italian Student Movement of 1977 between Local, National and Global Memories of Protest....Pages 258-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-280