Theatres Of Memory: Past And Present In Contemporary Culture
by Raphael Samuel (Verso, £14.99)
For Samuel, history was a "social form of knowledge", not the "prerogative of the historian". How we remember our own past is also part of controlling shifts and changes in power. His superb, often contentious read, doing away with the hierarchies of memory, also sheds light on the way today's popular historians package the past for us.
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