Partisan Histories
The Past in Contemporary Global Politics
Published on 15. June 2005
Book
Hardback
VI, 198 pages
978-1-4039-6455-7 (ISBN)
Description
Partisan Histories is an introduction to the multiple uses of history in contemporary political debate and conflict. As communities reimagine themselves, a contest over defining legitimacy, identifying us and others, and jockeying for political control intersects with fights over history and memory. Here distinguished scholars examine how competing versions of national identity are legitimized through appeals to carefully constructed 'pasts' both in democracies and in repressive regimes. The essays focus on the cases of Armenia, Chile, France, Germany, India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Japan, Nigeria, and the United States to draw broader conclusions about the worldwide effect of traumatic memory, questions of punishment and restitution, and the instrumentalization of the past for political purposes.
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Edition
2005 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VI, 198 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-6455-7 (9781403964557)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-09150-5
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Persons
PROFESSOR PADRAIC KENNEY is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, USA. He is the author of
Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists 1945-1950
(Cornell University Press, 1997), and
A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
(Princeton University Press, 2002).
MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN is Assistant Professor at Florida State University, USA. He is the author of Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II (Cambridge University Press).
MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN is Assistant Professor at Florida State University, USA. He is the author of Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II (Cambridge University Press).
Content
History in Politics; P.Kenney & M.P.Friedman PART I: NEW REGIMES The Past in the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany; A.H.Beattie Apologizing for the Past Between Japan and Korea; A.Dudden Breaking the Silence in Post-Authoritarian Chile; K.Hite Political Uses of the Recent Past in the Spanish Post-authoritarian Democracy; C.Humlebæk PART II: NEW NATIONS Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations (Kazakhstan and Armenia); R.Grigor Suny Knowledge For Politics: Partisan Histories and Communal Mobilization in India and Pakistan; S.Das & S.Basu Historiophobia or the Enslavement of History: The Role of the 1948 Ethnic Cleansing in the Contemporary Peace Process; I.Pappe Nigeria: The Past in the Present; T.Falola PART III: NEW LESSONS Histories and 'Lessons' of the Vietnam War; P.Hagopian