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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... Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. POLITICAL USES OF THE PAST The Recent Mediterranean Experience Editors JACQUES REVEL GIOVANNI LEVI Preface Irad Malkin Historians and the Present Conjuncture Frangois Hartog Title.
... Mediterranean Experiences Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel. POLITICAL USES OF THE PAST The Recent Mediterranean Experience Editors JACQUES REVEL GIOVANNI LEVI Preface Irad Malkin Historians and the Present Conjuncture Frangois Hartog Title.
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... Present Conjuncture Frangois Hartog and Jacques Revel 1 Towards an Ethnographic Phenomenology of the Greek Spirit Michael Herzfeld The Construction of National Time: The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination Antonis Liakos ...
... Present Conjuncture Frangois Hartog and Jacques Revel 1 Towards an Ethnographic Phenomenology of the Greek Spirit Michael Herzfeld The Construction of National Time: The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination Antonis Liakos ...
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... for conceptualizing and editing this work. Irad Malkin Director Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Editor Mediterranean Historical Review Tel Aviv University Historians and the Present Conjuncture FRANCOIS HARTOG and JACQUES REVEL.
... for conceptualizing and editing this work. Irad Malkin Director Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Editor Mediterranean Historical Review Tel Aviv University Historians and the Present Conjuncture FRANCOIS HARTOG and JACQUES REVEL.
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... became suspect: were not the greatest scholars likely to continue confronting each other over the significance of the end of the Roman Empire, the Investiture controversy, the Wars of Religion, or Historians and the Present Conjuncture.
... became suspect: were not the greatest scholars likely to continue confronting each other over the significance of the end of the Roman Empire, the Investiture controversy, the Wars of Religion, or Historians and the Present Conjuncture.
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... 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 past and the constraints which, nevertheless ...
... 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 past and the constraints which, nevertheless ...
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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