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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... narrative to overstress its continuity - for example , by inventing the biological continuity of the three royal bloodlines or by projecting a retrospective horoscope onto French territory , citing Caesar and Strabo to support it . But ...
... narrative to overstress its continuity - for example , by inventing the biological continuity of the three royal bloodlines or by projecting a retrospective horoscope onto French territory , citing Caesar and Strabo to support it . But ...
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... narratives which help the players of the present ( in this case , political players ) to grasp the past - which suggests thinking about how people identify what suits them but also what is possible given the resources offered by this ...
... narratives which help the players of the present ( in this case , political players ) to grasp the past - which suggests thinking about how people identify what suits them but also what is possible given the resources offered by this ...
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... narratives which often mobilize the same resources for conflicting ends , practising denial and revisionism on each other . In terms of violence and instability , this is certainly an extreme situation ? but who can fail to see that the ...
... narratives which often mobilize the same resources for conflicting ends , practising denial and revisionism on each other . In terms of violence and instability , this is certainly an extreme situation ? but who can fail to see that the ...
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... narratives , which have vanished , today there are ' key words ' , like the passwords of time . Taking one leads on to the others : if not a system , they constitute at the very least a network , or indeed even a dictionary of accepted ...
... narratives , which have vanished , today there are ' key words ' , like the passwords of time . Taking one leads on to the others : if not a system , they constitute at the very least a network , or indeed even a dictionary of accepted ...
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... narratives offers revisionism ( in the meaning normally associated with this term ) , see the recent special report which Les Temps modernes ( 606 , Nov. - Dec . 1999 ) published on the new ' readings ' of the genocide of the Jews in ...
... narratives offers revisionism ( in the meaning normally associated with this term ) , see the recent special report which Les Temps modernes ( 606 , Nov. - Dec . 1999 ) published on the new ' readings ' of the genocide of the Jews in ...
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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