Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the
battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel …

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the
recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible …

In the last few decades, there are few concepts that have rivaled" collective memory" for
attention in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far …

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice
Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective …

All history depends ultimately upon its social purpose. This is why in the past it has been
handed down by oral tradition and written chronicle, and why today professional historians …

Through a synthesis of old and new theories of social remembering, this book provides the
first comprehensive overview of the sociology of memory. This rapidly expanding field …

The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology
combining major,'classic'articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of …

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory
interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford …

The central theme of this paper is the invention of Canada through strategies that have
attempted to integrate a people separated by geography, history, ethnicity, and class by …

In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its
catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an indelible …