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History in the World
About this book
Questions about the relationship between historical research and contemporary social and practical problems have posed a challenge to generations of historians, as well as to philosophers and theorists of history. In recent years, views regarding the isolation of academic history from real-world issues and affairs have come under increasing criticism. The contributions to this volume all focus on history's role in the world today and on the possibilities for, and limits to, engagement resulting from disciplinary practices and conventions. The authors undertake their assessment of history's relevance in different ways, combining case studies of political clashes, public debates, and practices of commemoration with sophisticated theoretical discussions of identity construction, the material manifestations of power, and the relationship between historicizing and expectations concerning future actions. These studies highlight the difficulty of distinguishing between history and politics, and between disciplinary accounts and activism, and contribute significantly towards an improved understanding of our relationship with the past. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Epigraph
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Citation information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Historians and āthe current situationā
- 1. The republic of historians: historians as nation-builders in Estonia (late 1980sāearly 1990s)
- 2. The āage of commemorationā as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France
- 3. Thinking the past politically: Palestine, power and pedagogy
- 4. The ideal of objectivity and the public role of the historian: some lessons from the Historikerstreit and the History Wars
- 5. Calliopeās ascent: defragmenting philosophy of history by rhetoric
- 6. We are history: the outlines of a quasi-substantive philosophy of history
- 7. History, power and visual communication artefacts
- Index