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'remembered histories' and the politics of the shared past /
Rowan Light.

155 pages ;

18 cm
"#104".Preface: Kia Tåupato, beware -- Introduction: why memory matters -- 1 Under the Maunga -- 2 ANZAC and us -- 3 Commemorating Cook -- 4 The historians' debate -- Conclusions: servants of memory.
"From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, our society is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by waves of loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why are certain aspects of the past remembered over others, and why does this matter? In response to this fraught question, historian Rowan Light offers a series of case studies about local debates about history in New Zealand. These provisional judgements of the past illuminate aspects of what it means to remember - and why it matters."--Publisher's website.

BWB texts.