Political Uses of the Past: The Recent Mediterranean ExperiencesGiovanni Levi, Jacques Revel Routledge, 2014 M04 8 - 136 pages This work addresses political and historiographical uses of history. A group of leading historians and thinkers discuss questions of collective identity and representation in relation to the fluctuating concept of "Past" and its changing relevance. Among the topics are Greek historiographical questions, Balkan history, the Armenian problem, and the Plaestine historical narrative. |
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... century 3. Mediterranean Region - Historiography I. Revel , Jaques , 1942– II . Levi , Giovanni , 1939– 909'.09822 ISBN 0 7146 5271 7 ( h / back ) ISBN 0 7146 8244 6 ( p / back ) Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data ...
... century 3. Mediterranean Region - Historiography I. Revel , Jaques , 1942– II . Levi , Giovanni , 1939– 909'.09822 ISBN 0 7146 5271 7 ( h / back ) ISBN 0 7146 8244 6 ( p / back ) Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data ...
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... century , the problem of objectivity - ' that noble dream ' - was at the heart of the debate about identity which brought them together . ' They knew full well that they had to guard against the fascination of politics , and they ...
... century , the problem of objectivity - ' that noble dream ' - was at the heart of the debate about identity which brought them together . ' They knew full well that they had to guard against the fascination of politics , and they ...
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... century ? And so the illusion of evaluating everything coolly had to be abandoned . Actually , any historical ... centuries , had the role of guaranteeing the continuity of the nation for as long as possible and in a quasi - biological ...
... century ? And so the illusion of evaluating everything coolly had to be abandoned . Actually , any historical ... centuries , had the role of guaranteeing the continuity of the nation for as long as possible and in a quasi - biological ...
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... century on , in which a model of the universal Greek invented by German philologists and imported by the Bavarian monarchy with the help of Westernized elites confronts a regional , Oriental model combining Byzantine , Slav , Turkish ...
... century on , in which a model of the universal Greek invented by German philologists and imported by the Bavarian monarchy with the help of Westernized elites confronts a regional , Oriental model combining Byzantine , Slav , Turkish ...
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... century by several genocides . ' The transition is made from the specific to the universal via the necessity of the duty of memory : from the memory of the Armenians to the memory of mankind , via the intermediary of the law . The ...
... century by several genocides . ' The transition is made from the specific to the universal via the necessity of the duty of memory : from the memory of the Armenians to the memory of mankind , via the intermediary of the law . The ...
Contents
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Shifting Boundaries Clientalism | 43 |
On the Political Use of History Giovanni Levi | 61 |
The Two Levels of Public Use of the Past Claudio Pavone | 74 |
Out of Place Out of Time Elias Sanbar | 87 |
Political Uses of History in Spain PedroRuiz Torres | 95 |
Abstracts | 117 |
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