Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Mirrors with a Memory: Postmortem Photography and Spirit Photography in Transitional British Fiction and Culture

Chapter 3 Autograph Albums and the Commercialization of Memory in the United States

Chapter 4 Music for Birthdays: Commemorative Birthday Pieces in Johannes Brahms’s Circle (1853–1854) and Elsewhere

Chapter 5 A Whale Is a Palimpsest: Dismembering and Remembering in Moby-Dick and Fighting the Whales

Chapter 7 Libby Prison War Museum: Site of Commemoration or Commercial Enterprise

Chapter 8 Randolph Cemetery and the Politics of Death in the Post-Civil War South

Chapter 9 “The Same Effort and the Same Death”: The Memory of the Langalibalele Incident of 1873

Chapter 10 Remembering the 1857 Indian Uprising in Civic Celebrations

Chapter 11 Nationalist Ironies: The Legacy of the Federalist Party and the Construction of a Unified Republic

Chapter 12 German Domestic Pedestrian Tourism and the Rhetoric of National Historical Memory, Empire, and Middle-Class Identity 1780s–1850s

Chapter 13 The Art of Memory: Tracing the Colonial in Contemporary India