| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

David Gross. Lost Time: On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 199. $29.95.

David Gross's new book deals with what psychologists call episodic memory: the memory of a past different from the present as embodied not only in personalities and events but also in ideas, values, and emotions. In the history of such memory, he finds a basis for appreciating the many layers of meaning that underpin contemporary culture, and so he accords it an importance that transcends the niche psychologists have assigned it. His broadly conceived interpretation is well focused on this topic, although along the way he offers observations on many of the issues about memory that have recently preoccupied historians: commemoration, the social construction of memory, memory and trauma, memory and historical understanding, and the implications of the electronic revolution for memory. . . .

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