Heritage and Memory Studies
About the Book Series
This ground-breaking series examines the dynamics of heritage and memory from a transnational, interdisciplinary and integrated approaches. Monographs or edited volumes critically interrogate the politics of heritage and dynamics of memory, as well as the theoretical implications of landscapes and mass violence, nationalism and ethnicity, heritage preservation and conservation, archaeology and (dark) tourism, diaspora and postcolonial memory, the power of aesthetics and the art of absence and forgetting, mourning and performative re-enactments in the present.
Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
1st Edition
Edited
By Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez
January 15, 2026
Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or as an imaginary geography of a 'Romantic' Spain in later centuries. However, ...
W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies: Memory, Word and Image
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonida Kovac, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Ilse van Rijn, Ihab Saloul
January 15, 2026
When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and ...
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
1st Edition
By Paul M. Doolan
January 10, 2026
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a ...
Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
1st Edition
By Paul Bijl
January 10, 2026
This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia. Dutch commentators have frequently claimed that the colonial past and especially the violence ...
Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering
1st Edition
By Grace Tjandra Leksana
January 10, 2026
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are ...
Trauma and Nostalgia: Practices in Memory and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucien van Liere, Srdjan Sremac
January 10, 2026
This volume reflects on the significance of nostalgia in the construction of traumatic pasts, both on an individual and a collective level. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, the volume enhances our understanding of how the entanglements of trauma and nostalgia influence the construction ...
Homer, Troy and the Turks: Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915
1st Edition
By Günay Uslu
January 09, 2026
Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scholars today rely heavily on Western sources, ...
Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences
1st Edition
By Gerlov van Engelenhoven
January 09, 2026
This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is ...
Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America
1st Edition
Edited
By Ihab Saloul, Patrizia Violi, Anna Lorusso, Cristina Demaria
January 09, 2026
This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through ...
The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815
1st Edition
Edited
By Lotte Jensen
January 09, 2026
This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis ...
A Metropolitan History of the Dutch Empire: Popular Imperialism in The Netherlands, 1850-1940
1st Edition
By Matthijs Kuipers
December 01, 2025
A Metropolitan History of the Dutch Empire: Popular Imperialism in The Netherlands, 1850-1940 examines popular imperial culture in the Netherlands around the turn of the twentieth century. In various and sometimes unexpected places in civil society the empire played a prominent role and was key in ...
Archaeological Approaches to and Heritage Perspectives on Modern Conflict: Beyond the Battlefields
1st Edition
By Max van der Schriek
December 01, 2025
From a wider disciplinary perspective, modern conflict archaeology is now a thoroughly established and mature subdiscipline. However, a significant problem conflict archaeologists in the Netherlands face is that modern eras, including both world wars, have so far not received serious attention. ...