Partisan histories : the past in contemporary global politics / Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: vi, 198 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1403964556
  • 1403964564 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 900 FRI 22
Contents:
Introduction : history in politics / Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney -- Ch. 1. The past in the politics of divided and unified Germany / Andrew H. Beattie -- Ch. 2. Apologizing for the past between Japan and Korea / Alexis Dudden -- Ch. 3. Breaking the silence in post-authoritarian Chile / Katherine Hite -- Ch. 4. Political uses of the recent past in the Spanish post-authoritarian democracy / Carsten Jacob Humlebaek -- Ch. 5. Constructing primordialism in Armenia and Kazakhstan : old histories for new nations / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Ch. 6. Knowledge for politics : partisan histories and communal mobilization in India and Pakistan / Subho Basu and Suranjan Das -- Ch. 7. Historiophobia or the enslavement of history : the role of the 1948 ethnic cleansing in the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian peace process / Ilan Pappe -- Ch. 8. Nigeria : the past in the present / Toyin Falola -- Ch. 9. Histories and "lessons" of the Vietnam War / Patrick Hagopian.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : history in politics / Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney -- Ch. 1. The past in the politics of divided and unified Germany / Andrew H. Beattie -- Ch. 2. Apologizing for the past between Japan and Korea / Alexis Dudden -- Ch. 3. Breaking the silence in post-authoritarian Chile / Katherine Hite -- Ch. 4. Political uses of the recent past in the Spanish post-authoritarian democracy / Carsten Jacob Humlebaek -- Ch. 5. Constructing primordialism in Armenia and Kazakhstan : old histories for new nations / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Ch. 6. Knowledge for politics : partisan histories and communal mobilization in India and Pakistan / Subho Basu and Suranjan Das -- Ch. 7. Historiophobia or the enslavement of history : the role of the 1948 ethnic cleansing in the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian peace process / Ilan Pappe -- Ch. 8. Nigeria : the past in the present / Toyin Falola -- Ch. 9. Histories and "lessons" of the Vietnam War / Patrick Hagopian.

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