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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... Relations in the East Mediterranean by Amikam Nachmani Jews , Christians , and Muslims in the Mediterranean World after 1492 edited by Alisa Meyuhas Ginio ( new in paperback ) Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean edited ...
... Relations in the East Mediterranean by Amikam Nachmani Jews , Christians , and Muslims in the Mediterranean World after 1492 edited by Alisa Meyuhas Ginio ( new in paperback ) Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean edited ...
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... relations . 2. Mediterranean Region - Historiography . 3. Mediterranean Region - Politics and government . 4. Religion and politics - Mediterranean Region . 5 . Europe - Politics and government - 20th century . 6. Human geography ...
... relations . 2. Mediterranean Region - Historiography . 3. Mediterranean Region - Politics and government . 4. Religion and politics - Mediterranean Region . 5 . Europe - Politics and government - 20th century . 6. Human geography ...
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... relations in the nineteenth century ? And so the illusion of evaluating everything coolly had to be abandoned ... relationship existing between them . Such is the case of narratives of origins establishing a particular human group's ...
... relations in the nineteenth century ? And so the illusion of evaluating everything coolly had to be abandoned ... relationship existing between them . Such is the case of narratives of origins establishing a particular human group's ...
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... relationship between historical knowledge and the diverse forms of the public debate which must increasingly be negotiated . - are no more For this is the second specificity of the contemporary debate : to a very great extent , it has ...
... relationship between historical knowledge and the diverse forms of the public debate which must increasingly be negotiated . - are no more For this is the second specificity of the contemporary debate : to a very great extent , it has ...
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... relationship between a present and a past , of which we are only familiar with the traces , but often ( with a few notable exceptions , such as Marc Bloch's L'Etrange défaite ) we fail to draw the consequences . This should be an ...
... relationship between a present and a past , of which we are only familiar with the traces , but often ( with a few notable exceptions , such as Marc Bloch's L'Etrange défaite ) we fail to draw the consequences . This should be an ...
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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