Exhibiting Atrocity Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the form: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budap...

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Main Author: Sodaro, Amy (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2017
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