Agreeing to disagree on the legacies of recent history: Memory, Pluralism and Europe after 1989

European Journal of Social Theory

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-395

  Kattago, Siobhan ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Europe; Legacy; Memory; The Holocaust; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249085270     PISSN: 13684310     EISSN: 14617137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368431009337352     Document Type: Article

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