Memory and Nation Building: From Ancient Times to the Islamic State (2018) is available now from Rowman & Littlefield.

Memory and Nation Building: From Ancient Times to the Islamic State (2018), recently released by Rowman & Littlefield, explores how human societies form shared memories and the role those memories play in state formation. Author Michael L. Galaty, director of UMMAA, draws on his knowledge of ancient and modern societies in Egypt, Greece, and Albania to illustrate how the collective memory-making process is linked to and manipulated by political systems.