2nd Edition
The Use and Abuse of History Or How the Past is Taught to Children
By Marc Ferro
Copyright 2003
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China.
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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
Biography
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.
'Marc Ferro is remarkable in writing history enjoyed both by scholars and by people curious about the world in which they live and its past.' - Natalie Zemon Davis
