
Beyond the Canon
History for the Twenty-first Century
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 11. October 2007
Book
Hardback
XII, 222 pages
978-0-230-51650-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Beyond the Canon' deals with recent politicized processes of canonization and its implications for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge and its consequences for the construction of narratives and the teaching of history in multicultural environments.
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Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
XII, 222 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-51650-2 (9780230516502)
DOI
10.1057/9780230599246
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Persons
MARIA GREVER Professor of Theory and Methodology of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
HENDRIK HENRICHS Senior Lecturer in Cultural History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
ED JONKER Associate Professor of Historiography and Theory of History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
PETER LEE Senior Lecturer in History in Education, University of London, UK
SUSAN LEGÊNE Head of the Curatorial Department of the KIT Tropenmuseum and Professor of Dutch Cultural History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
GEERTJE MAK Assistant professor of Gender History at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
CIRAJ RASSOOL Associate Professor of History, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
KEES RIBBENS Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
PETER SEIXAS Professor and Canada Research Chair in Education, the University of British Columbia, Canada
PETER N. STEARNS Provost of George Mason University, USA
ALEX VAN STIPRIAAN Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
SIEP STUURMAN Jean Monnet Chair of European History and European Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
NICOLE TUTIAUX-GUILLON University Professor in the University of Lille 3 - Charles De Gaulle, France
BERTEKE WAALDIJK Professor of Language and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Content
Introduction: Beyond the Canon: History in a Globalizing World; S.Stuurman & M.Grever PART 1: THE FRAMING OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE Who Needs a Canon?; P.Seixas Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon; M.Grever From National Canon to Historical Literacy; P.Lee 'Another Brick in the Wall'. Historical Culture and History Teaching; K.Ribbens PART 2: FOUNDATIONS AND REVISIONS OF THE WESTERN CANON Can the Enlightenment provide a Canon for Modernity?; S.Stuurman The Canon after the Crisis of the Humanities; E.Jonker Rethinking the Nation in German Historical Museums; H.Henrichs Moving History: How Gender has touched the Canon; G.Mak PART 3: TRANSMISSION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE IN MULTICULTURAL SETTINGS Heritage Museums and the Transformation of South African History; C.Rassool Internationalizing the Classic United States History Survey; P.Stearns French History Confronts the Multicultural; N.Tutiaux Decolonization and the Canon; S.Legêne & B.Waaldijk Disrupting the Canon: The Case of Slavery; A.van Stipriaan LuIscius