Marc Ferro

The Use and Abuse of History

Or How the Past is Taught to Children

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging and challenging, this extensively revised key text of current historiography confronts the 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780415285926
• ISBN-10: 0415285925
• Artikelnr.: 22073158

Autorenporträt

Marc Ferro (1924-) President of the Association of Research at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and co-director of the prestigious French review Annales.

Inhaltsangabe

1 'White history', a vestige: Johannesburg 2 'Decolonized history': Black
Africa 3 Some remarks on a variant: Trinidad and the exorcist reaction 4
India: history without identity 5 The history of Islam or the history of
the Arabs 6 The Persian and Turkish variants 7 From Christ the King to the
nation-state: history in European eyes 8 Aspects and variations of Soviet
history 9 History: the safeguard of national identity in Armenia 10 History
in profile: Poland 11 A note on the history of China 12 History in Japan: a
code or an ideology? 13 Deconstructing 'white history': the USA 14
'Forbidden history': Chicanos and Aborigines 15 Analysis of a crisis:
1939-1945 revisited