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Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century
Contributor(s): Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat (Editor), Ginio, Ruth (Editor), Winter, Jay (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0521196582     ISBN-13: 9780521196581
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $114.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - General
- Political Science | Peace
- History | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 303.66
LCCN: 2010278122
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9" L (1.15 lbs) 234 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules. This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war.

Contributor Bio(s): Ginio, Ruth: - Ruth Ginio is Lecturer in History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem. Her recent publications include French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa (2006) and Violence and Non-Violence in Africa (as co-editor, 2007).Winter, Jay: - Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), and War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (as editor, with Emmanuel Sivan, 1999).Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat: - Efrat Ben-Ze'ev is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel. She has published on Palestinian-Arab and Jewish-Israeli memories of the war of 1948.
 
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