Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: Working with oral testimony. Part II: Memorialization and commemoration. Part III: Between ‘individual memory’ and ‘collective memory'. Select bibliography

About the Author

Joan Tumblety teaches History at the University of Southampton. Her previous publications include, Remaking the male body: masculinity and the uses of physical culture in interwar and Vichy France (OUP, 2012) and she is currently working on health cures in early to mid-twentieth century France.

Reviews

'Now that memory studies have become mainstream in historical scholarship, there is a glaring need for this well organized and engaging introduction to the sophisticated theory and methods that undergird them. Tumblety has produced a work that is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the burgeoning field of historical memory.' W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, USA"Memory and History leaves this reader with the impression that work with sources of and about memory is charged with dilemmas of interpretation, ethics, scale and truth—and therein lies its strength. This primer does much to present the current state of the field and the role of oral sources in working with historical memory. It encourages students to make their own contributions to meaningful ongoing debates." Rosamund Johnston, New York University, USA "[This] book appropriately strives not to reify memory but to historicize it and to locate its complexities in historical processes."Sean Field, University of Cape Town, South Africa