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Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of Ethnic Subsystems

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Most studies of ‘historical memory’ in political science—and especially when the authors prefer the term historical knowledge—suffer from two disadvantages: they remain ‘histories of ideas’, rarely examining the impact of those concepts on political decisions; and they are concentrated at the national level because historical memory is conceived as ‘national historical knowledge’.

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von Beyme, K. (2014). Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of Ethnic Subsystems. In: On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01559-0_2

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