Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume represents views by scholars from around the world, who work in different social sciences. It shows that labour politics, cultural selectionism, separate education for minorities and majorities and other projects point in the direction of more exclusion and racism.

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.

"There is no question that this is a timely volume ... [that] provide[s] a basis for a genuinely interdisciplinary, transnational comparative discussion ... [and] could represent an important point of reference for all discussions of how to conceptualize historical memory."?????Robert Moeller, University of California, Irvine

"... a well focused collection of articles, all of which are of a good scholarly standard and some of which are strikingly original or illuminating."?????Michael Kelly, University of Southampton