The Case of Modern Memory *

* The books under review here include Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer, eds., Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999), pp. 288, $19.95 (paper); Pim den Boer, History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 496, $77.50; Cathy Caruth, ed., Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 277, $17.95 (paper); Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 134, $15.95 (paper); James Chandler, England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 584, $21.00 (paper); Roger Cohen, Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo (New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 523, $29.95; Sarah Farmer, Martyred Ellage: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 232, $17.95 (paper); John Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values (New York: Basic Books, 1996), pp. 310, $16.95 (paper); Adrian Gregory, The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day 1919-1946 (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1994), pp. 245, $65.00; Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), pp. 336, $23.95; Tim Judah, The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 378, $15.95 (paper); Robert Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History (New York: Vintage, 1993), pp. 307, $13.00 (paper); Rudy Koshar, Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp. 480, $24.95 (paper); Annette Kuhn, Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (London: Verso, 1995), pp. 128, $18.00 (paper); Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory after Auschwitz (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998), pp. 232, $15.95 (paper); Dominick LaCapra, Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 230, $15.95 (paper); Noel Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History (New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp. 492, $35.00; Pierre Nora, ed., Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, 3 vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-98), pp. 65 1, 591, 751, $41.50 each; James Olney, Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life Writing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 496, $35.00; Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. 393, $26.95; Richard Terdiman, Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 389, $19.95 (paper); Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of the Dead: Reburial and Postsocialist Change (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 208, $24.00; Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 276, $14.95 (paper); and Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan, eds., War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 268, $19.95 (paper).