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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... discourse emphasizes the multifarious nature of its contacts ; ' network ' , rather than face - to - face nations , have become its byword . And yet the historical uses of the past in the recent Mediterranean experience often sound ...
... discourse emphasizes the multifarious nature of its contacts ; ' network ' , rather than face - to - face nations , have become its byword . And yet the historical uses of the past in the recent Mediterranean experience often sound ...
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... discourse about what time conceals from human observation . Professional historians are not the only users of the past - far from it : not only powers or authorities and institutions but also individuals are constantly tempted to ...
... discourse about what time conceals from human observation . Professional historians are not the only users of the past - far from it : not only powers or authorities and institutions but also individuals are constantly tempted to ...
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... discourse is liable to political uses , whether through the intermediary of its author or its audience or because of ... discourses infinitely more complex and subtle than this elementary overview would suggest . Some genres have ...
... discourse is liable to political uses , whether through the intermediary of its author or its audience or because of ... discourses infinitely more complex and subtle than this elementary overview would suggest . Some genres have ...
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... discourse possible even where the need for one is considered urgent , as in the case of the Palestinians in Israel . This is an old problem , the same one that had to be resolved by the historians of the 1820 generation in France , who ...
... discourse possible even where the need for one is considered urgent , as in the case of the Palestinians in Israel . This is an old problem , the same one that had to be resolved by the historians of the 1820 generation in France , who ...
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... discourse about the past may differ radically from what we have been taught to believe by those with real power . Such an ethnography will show that the stereotypes of Hellene and Romios ( the Greek as descendant of glorious ancient ...
... discourse about the past may differ radically from what we have been taught to believe by those with real power . Such an ethnography will show that the stereotypes of Hellene and Romios ( the Greek as descendant of glorious ancient ...
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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