Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

1. Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories: A Triangular Relationship

1. Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories: A Triangular Relationship
Marnix Beyen

Part I. The Politics of Urban Memory

2. Physical Space, Urban Space, Civic Space: Rotterdam’s Inhabitants and their Appropriation of the City’s Past
Willem Frijhoff

3. The Politics of Street Names: Local, National, Transnational Budapest
Emilia Palonen

4. Transfer Zones: German and Global Suffering in Dresden
Mathias Berek

5. Manufacturing Local Identification Behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol after the Second World War
Karl D. Qualls

6. The Local Past in a Contested Borderland: Commemoration in Strasbourg Between France, Germany and Europe
Thomas Williams

Part II. Places and Practices of Subaltern Memory

7. Displacements and Hidden Histories: Museums, Locality and the British Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Geoffrey Cubitt

8. Structures of Collective Memory: The Last Bannerman in Local Japan
Michael Wert

9. Remembering Father Cícero: Local, Regional and National Memory in North-eastern Brazil
Gerald Greenfield

10. ‘Reconciliation across the Graves’? The German War Cemetery at Ysselsteyn as a Place of Remembrance between Local and (Inter)national Areas of Conflict 1945–2000
Christine Gundermann

11. Local and Counter-Memories of Socialism in Post-Socialist Romania
Duncan Light, Craig Young

12. Greetings from Borgerokko: An Antwerp Neighbourhood as a National Icon of Globalization and Anti-globalism
Marnix Beyen

13. Memories on the Move: The Italian Student Movement of 1977 between Local, National and Global Memories of Protest
Andrea Hajek

Nyckelord: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Memory Studies, Cognitive Psychology, Sociology, general, Modern History