Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests And The Politics Of Memory

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.

• | By (Author): Andreas Huyssen
• | Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2003
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0804745617
• | ISBN-13: 9780804745611