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.

• | Author: Andreas Huyssen
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2003
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780804745611
• | ISBN-10: 0804745617