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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The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. Preface This publication is the result of cooperation between the Center for Mediterranean ... to the current situation in the Middle East , Elias Sanbar asked to withdraw.
The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. Preface This publication is the result of cooperation between the Center for Mediterranean ... to the current situation in the Middle East , Elias Sanbar asked to withdraw.
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The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. Historians and the Present Conjuncture FRANÇOIS HARTOG and JACQUES REVEL The political uses of the past have been a classic , even a common , theme in the reflections of ...
The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. Historians and the Present Conjuncture FRANÇOIS HARTOG and JACQUES REVEL The political uses of the past have been a classic , even a common , theme in the reflections of ...
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... in the nineteenth century ? And so the illusion of evaluating everything coolly had to be abandoned . Actually , any historical discourse is liable to political uses , whether through the intermediary of its author or its audience or ...
... in the nineteenth century ? And so the illusion of evaluating everything coolly had to be abandoned . Actually , any historical discourse is liable to political uses , whether through the intermediary of its author or its audience or ...
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The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. ground its legitimacy or disputing its proof with other users ? Michael Herzfeld here reminds us of the tension which runs through Greek national construction from the ...
The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. ground its legitimacy or disputing its proof with other users ? Michael Herzfeld here reminds us of the tension which runs through Greek national construction from the ...
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The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. - community , to break out of so - called specialist circles and submit the dispute to public debate . But what has happened in the last 25 years shows that the public use ...
The Recent Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. - community , to break out of so - called specialist circles and submit the dispute to public debate . But what has happened in the last 25 years shows that the public use ...
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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