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Article: From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990. (Reviews).
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2002
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From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990. By Rudy Koshar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xvi plus 352 pp. $45.00).
After producing a wonderful monograph about preservation and national memory in Germany's twentieth century (1), Rudy Koshar presents us with a marvellous interpretative synthesis of the existing literature on Germany's memory landscape. The interrelationship between national memory, culture and society is analysed with particular reference to the 'physical environment'. He divides his rich material into four main chapters: In the first one, Koshar examines the national monument as a 'framing strategy' to ...