Sites of the Dictators: Memories of Authoritarian Europe, 1945-2020

ISBN-13: 9780367684105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Opis

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and death of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way. It will be useful reading for students and scholars of history, politics and memory studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Sites of Memory, Sites of Dictators  2. The Sites of the Fascist Dictators  3. The Sites of the Authoritarian and Collaborationist Dictators  4. Is Spain Different? The Many Sites of the Caudillo  5. The Sites of the Communist Dictators  6. Epilogue: What Should be Done with the Sites of the Dictators?

O autorze

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (PhD, European University Institute, Florence, Italy) is professor of modern history at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. His fields of research are comparative nationalism and territorial identities, overseas migrations and the cultural history of war. His latest publications are (ed.) The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe (Leiden/Boston, 2020) and The Spanish Blue Division (Toronto, 2022, forthcoming).