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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... Historiography I. Revel, Jaques, 1942–II. Levi, Giovanni, 1939– 909'.09822 ISBN 978-0-7146-8244-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The recent Mediterranean experience / editors, Jaques Revel, Giovanni Levi. p. cm. ISBN ...
... Historiography I. Revel, Jaques, 1942–II. Levi, Giovanni, 1939– 909'.09822 ISBN 978-0-7146-8244-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The recent Mediterranean experience / editors, Jaques Revel, Giovanni Levi. p. cm. ISBN ...
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... topics such as modem colonization in north Africa and contemporary historiography in Israel, failed to reach us in time for publication. With regard to the current situation in the Middle East, Elias Sanbar asked to withdraw his Preface.
... topics such as modem colonization in north Africa and contemporary historiography in Israel, failed to reach us in time for publication. With regard to the current situation in the Middle East, Elias Sanbar asked to withdraw his Preface.
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... historiography often involves long-term processes, but its own timeline may be far shorter. Pedro Ruiz Torres provides an enlightening demonstration of this by analyzing contemporary changes in the major conflicting readings of Spanish ...
... historiography often involves long-term processes, but its own timeline may be far shorter. Pedro Ruiz Torres provides an enlightening demonstration of this by analyzing contemporary changes in the major conflicting readings of Spanish ...
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... historiography of the Armenian genocide is that it is a far more complex structure than the public recognizes and, moreover, that it is not always possible to separate the production of a body of knowledge about this past from the ...
... historiography of the Armenian genocide is that it is a far more complex structure than the public recognizes and, moreover, that it is not always possible to separate the production of a body of knowledge about this past from the ...
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... historiographic tradition, since it offers a unique possibility of mobilizing arguments of precedence and authority - even if it means actually going in search of them. These are not the most novel uses. In his contribution to this ...
... historiographic tradition, since it offers a unique possibility of mobilizing arguments of precedence and authority - even if it means actually going in search of them. These are not the most novel uses. In his contribution to this ...
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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