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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... countries and societies , but especially in the construction of the collective identity of each . Jacques Revel and François Hartog provide us with an essay that also serves as an introduction to the entire volume , followed by the ...
... countries and societies , but especially in the construction of the collective identity of each . Jacques Revel and François Hartog provide us with an essay that also serves as an introduction to the entire volume , followed by the ...
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... country's national destiny . Such veering in historiography often involves long - term processes , but its own timeline may be far shorter . Pedro Ruiz Torres provides an enlightening demonstration of this by analyzing contemporary ...
... country's national destiny . Such veering in historiography often involves long - term processes , but its own timeline may be far shorter . Pedro Ruiz Torres provides an enlightening demonstration of this by analyzing contemporary ...
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... country to the next , there have been made attempts to reappropriate history from the bottom up ' , with proposals to groups at least - particularly those who have traditionally been deprived of the capacity to express themselves - to ...
... country to the next , there have been made attempts to reappropriate history from the bottom up ' , with proposals to groups at least - particularly those who have traditionally been deprived of the capacity to express themselves - to ...
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... country and the world's democracies have a pressing duty of memory . This memory cannot restrict itself to each ... country's own history , but which is acknowledged as underpinning not just an Armenian but a French - Armenian identity ...
... country and the world's democracies have a pressing duty of memory . This memory cannot restrict itself to each ... country's own history , but which is acknowledged as underpinning not just an Armenian but a French - Armenian identity ...
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... country about which many have waxed eloquent and about which many of the most eloquent have displayed appalling ignorance . Everyone , it seems , knows what Greece is ' , but few have cared to ask the Greeks in a way that would ...
... country about which many have waxed eloquent and about which many of the most eloquent have displayed appalling ignorance . Everyone , it seems , knows what Greece is ' , but few have cared to ask the Greeks in a way that would ...
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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