Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities

by Paul D. Williams

Book Overview

The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial museum. These seek to research, represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful, violent histories. With World War and Holocaust memorials as precursors, the kinds of events now recognized include genocide in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda and the Balkans, state repression in Eastern Europe, apartheid in South Africa, terrorism in the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845204883
• ISBN13: 9781845204884
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.8"