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Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and
culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space
between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In
museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres,
in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past
circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them is big
business; if the past is indeed a foreign country, there are tens of
thousands of tourist agents, guides, and pundits around to help us on
our way, for a fee, to be sure.This collection of essays by renowned
scholars from, among others, Yale, Columbia, Amsterdam Oxford,
Cambridge, New York University and the European University Institute in
Florence, is essential reading for anyone interested in today's memory
boom. Drawing on different national and disciplinary traditions, the
authors ultimately engage us with the ways in which Europeans continue a
venerable tradition of finding out who they are, and where they are
going, by performing the past.