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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... historians ever since they first took up this paradoxical activity of producing a true discourse about what time conceals from human observation. Professional historians are not the only users of the past - far from it: not only powers ...
... historians ever since they first took up this paradoxical activity of producing a true discourse about what time conceals from human observation. Professional historians are not the only users of the past - far from it: not only powers ...
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... professional historians can think and write (a familiar tune), but it is also, more usefully, an invitation to reflect on the dynamic relationship between historical knowledge and the diverse forms of the public debate which must ...
... professional historians can think and write (a familiar tune), but it is also, more usefully, an invitation to reflect on the dynamic relationship between historical knowledge and the diverse forms of the public debate which must ...
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... professional historians. This is no more the case, however, and it is a well-known fact that often the subsequent impetus arose in an altogether different context ... historian's position and stance, HISTORIANS AND THE PRESENT CONJUNCTURE 5.
... professional historians. This is no more the case, however, and it is a well-known fact that often the subsequent impetus arose in an altogether different context ... historian's position and stance, HISTORIANS AND THE PRESENT CONJUNCTURE 5.
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... professional historians sometimes seem to be lacking in critical perspectives and tools, and suggests that the epistemological turmoil affecting the social sciences on the one hand, and scholarly institutions on the other, has finished ...
... professional historians sometimes seem to be lacking in critical perspectives and tools, and suggests that the epistemological turmoil affecting the social sciences on the one hand, and scholarly institutions on the other, has finished ...
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... history is no more the exclusive of the professional historians. There are numerous players now. Among them, eyewitnesses are taking up more and more room, so much so that recently reference was made to the era of the eyewitness - Uere ...
... history is no more the exclusive of the professional historians. There are numerous players now. Among them, eyewitnesses are taking up more and more room, so much so that recently reference was made to the era of the eyewitness - Uere ...
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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