There are few terms or concepts that have, in the last twenty or so years, rivaled "collective memory" for attention in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far beyond scholarship to the realm of politics and journalism, where it has appeared in speeches at the centers of power and on the front pages of the world's leading newspapers. The cur...(展开全部)

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English- language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fill...(展开全部)

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English- language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fill...(展开全部)

""Time Maps" extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straigh...(展开全部)

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straight ...(展开全部)

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter...(展开全部)

In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, "In the House of the Hangman" (University of Chicago Press, 2005) has garnered a great deal of acclaim. This book collects his best essays on a range of...(展开全部)

贺萧（Gail Hershatter），曾求学于美国汉普郡学院、中国南开大学、美国斯坦福大学，获斯坦福大学博士学位，曾任美国亚洲研究学会主席，现为加州大学圣克鲁斯分校历史系自身讲座教授。著有《天津工人，1900-1949》，《个人的声音：20世纪80年代的中国妇女》，《危险的愉悦：20世纪上海的娼妓问题和现代性》，《中国妇女在漫长的20世纪》，《记忆的性别：农村妇女和中国集体化历史》等。