Contested Places, Contested Pasts by Kenneth E. Foote, Anett ... - 9781032870274

Contested Places, Contested PastsSites of Memory and Commemoration in the Hungarian Landscape\nAuthor(s): Kenneth E. Foote, Anett rvay\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032870274, 978-1032870274\nSynopsis\nContested Places, Contested Pasts focuses on how the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War communist period, and 1956 Uprising have been memorialized and marked in the Hungarian landscape. The book explores the difficult debates surrounding the remembrance and commemoration of these events.\n\nThis is the first comprehensive, book-length study of Hungarys commemorative landscapes from the First World War to the present. By stressing the spatiality and materiality of memory practice, it offers new insights into why some events are celebrated widely, while other controversial events are marked modestly or not at all. Using a comparative case study methodology, the book crisscrosses the country using arc.