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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... examples. National history is one such par excellence. Although this is perfectly predictable, it should be carefully ... example, by inventing the biological continuity of the three royal bloodlines or by projecting a retrospective ...
... examples. National history is one such par excellence. Although this is perfectly predictable, it should be carefully ... example, by inventing the biological continuity of the three royal bloodlines or by projecting a retrospective ...
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... example, Claudio Pavone draws attention to the development of the public use of history, or more specifically of the past, and invites historians to explore the history of this use too. We have become almost familiar with such ...
... example, Claudio Pavone draws attention to the development of the public use of history, or more specifically of the past, and invites historians to explore the history of this use too. We have become almost familiar with such ...
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... example, that certain major phenomena are inescapable. Examples would include the advent of a single form for the modern state, the inevitability of a form of capitalism defined according to neo-liberal norms; descriptions intended to ...
... example, that certain major phenomena are inescapable. Examples would include the advent of a single form for the modern state, the inevitability of a form of capitalism defined according to neo-liberal norms; descriptions intended to ...
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... example of this political use of the past is to be found in yet another legal motion 'aiming at the recognition of the slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity' (16 February 1999). The goal is for France to 'pay its respects ...
... example of this political use of the past is to be found in yet another legal motion 'aiming at the recognition of the slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity' (16 February 1999). The goal is for France to 'pay its respects ...
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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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