The Memory of the Modern by Matt K. Matsuda (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)
A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wonderfully written, the book studies these diverse memory-sites to show how memory and history are fought over, shaped, and put to personal and ideological use.