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Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture
Zwigenberg, Ran (Pennsylvania State University)
Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture
Zwigenberg, Ran (Pennsylvania State University)
A powerful exploration of the interaction between the history of Hiroshima and the global emergence of a culture of witnessing, trauma and remembrance following World War II. Zwigenberg traces the reconstruction of Hiroshima as a 'City of Bright Peace' against the twentieth-century backdrop of the Cold War and Holocaust memory.
340 pages, 18 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 15, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781107071278 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Dimensions | 236 × 158 × 22 mm · 686 g |