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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... debate about identity which brought them together.1 They knew full well that they had to guard against the fascination of politics, and they believed that they had found the means of doing so partly by adopting the precepts of ...
... debate about identity which brought them together.1 They knew full well that they had to guard against the fascination of politics, and they believed that they had found the means of doing so partly by adopting the precepts of ...
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... debate which must increasingly be negotiated. For this is the second specificity of the contemporary debate: to a very great extent, it has become public, and professional historians are no longer in control of it. It is no coincidence ...
... debate which must increasingly be negotiated. For this is the second specificity of the contemporary debate: to a very great extent, it has become public, and professional historians are no longer in control of it. It is no coincidence ...
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... debate. But what has happened in the last 25 years shows that the public use of history covers a far broader range of situations than this.7 In forms which vary widely from one country to the next, there have been made attempts to ...
... debate. But what has happened in the last 25 years shows that the public use of history covers a far broader range of situations than this.7 In forms which vary widely from one country to the next, there have been made attempts to ...
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... debate - or what is sometimes supposed to substitute for it - necessarily entail political uses of the past. It will, however, readily be agreed that neither do they exclude it, to say the least. And, in addition, the meaning of these ...
... debate - or what is sometimes supposed to substitute for it - necessarily entail political uses of the past. It will, however, readily be agreed that neither do they exclude it, to say the least. And, in addition, the meaning of these ...
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... in control of the calendar, nor always of the questions or terms of the debates which are triggered by these celebrations, but it cannot be denied that they do have an impact on research 8 MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.
... in control of the calendar, nor always of the questions or terms of the debates which are triggered by these celebrations, but it cannot be denied that they do have an impact on research 8 MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.
Contents
Towards an Ethnographic Phenomenology of the Greek Spirit | |
The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination | |
Shifting Boundaries Clientalism and Balkan Identities | |
Armenia during World War I | |
On the Political Use of History | |
The Two Levels of Public Use of the Past | |
Out of Place Out of Time | |
Political Uses of History in Spain | |
Abstracts | |
List of Contributors | |
Index | |
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