This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and
exchange through the concept of »memory box«. Ideas of displacement,
transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from
Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the
American colonies.The authors develop an understanding of memory boxes
as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and
disputing memory - but which, simultaneously, are important agents for
cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises »memory box«
as an idea that allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer
in conjunction with cultural memory.