Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past: Traditions v. 2 (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

by PierreNora (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1997

  $67.79

  Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.