Friedman, Max Paul.

Partisan histories : the past in contemporary global politics / Max Paul Friedman and Padraic Kenney. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - vi, 198 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Public history.
Memory--Social aspects.
Nationalism--History--20th century.
History--Philosophy.
World politics--20th century.

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