Generations and collective memory / Amy Corning and Howard Schuman.

Author/creator Corning, Amy author.
Other author Schuman, Howard, author.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Collective memory.
Autobiographical memory.
Memory--Sociological aspects.
Memory--Social aspects. --United States.
United States--History. --Public opinion.

Contents Introduction: the meanings of collective memory and generation -- Revising collective memories -- Collective memories and counter-memories of Christopher Columbus -- Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: sex, slavery, and science -- Abraham Lincoln: "honest Abe" versus "the great emancipator" -- The critical years and other sources of collective memory -- The critical years hypothesis: the idea and the evidence -- Cross-national replications and extensions -- Beyond critical years effects -- Does emigration affect collective memory? -- Generational experience of war and the development of new attitudes -- Autobiographical memory versus collective memory -- Collective knowledge: findings and losings -- Commemoration matters: the past in the present -- Closing reflections.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2014046112
ISBN9780226282527 cloth alk. paper
ISBN022628252X cloth alk. paper
ISBN9780226282664 paperback alk. paper
ISBN022628266X paperback alk. paper
ISBNe-book

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Joyner General Stacks BF378 .S65 C68 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold