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Klappentext As collective history becomes more tightly bound with personal narratives! the lines between history! memory! and commemoration have blurred. When history is inconvenient to a specific group! it is often compromised - watered down for public consumption. The articles in this special collection of The ANNALS examine what happens when scholars concentrate on an unsavory part of a collective history. Across the globe! the past gets politicized - used and misused. The articles in this volume focus on the political dynamics of confronting the publication of disagreeable findings about collective pasts. Most contributions cover a specific country or regional study where historical records are at odds with the collective story that has been embraced. The details of these highlighted conflicts vary! yet readers will notice striking similarities in the ways that contentious facts are handled by the collective society: Substantial delays in confronting an unpalatable aspect of the past Challenges to the motives! integrity! or loyalty of the messengers Attempts to quarantine information that is damaging to the established histories Taken together! this collection of articles explicate and analyze the myriad of ways that history has been politicized. Focusing on the tensions between differing conceptions of related histories and what happens when the self-concepts of two groups collide in the same narrative space! this provocative volume of The ANNALS raises many important questions. Researchers! students! and policy makers will find these articles! which challenge many accepted historical scripts! offer important insight into the way that politics have shaped history and will encourage new research and inspire further revision and ongoing reframing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Historical Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century - Jay WinterThe Political Currency of the Past: History! Memory! and Identity - Martin O. HeislerThe Future of Memory - Richard Ned LebowThe American Past Politicized: Uses and Misuses of History - Michael KammenBlank Spots in Collective Memory: A Case Study of Russia - James V. WertschUsing the Past in the Nazi Successor States from 1945 to the Present - Jenny Wüstenberg! David ArtThrough a Glass Darkly: Consequences of a Politicized Past in Contemporary Turkey - Fatma Müge GöçekThe Japanese History Textbook Controversy in East Asian Perspective - Claudia SchneiderDisputes in Japan over the Japanese Military "Comfort Women" System and Its Perception in History - Hirofumi HayashiThe Politics of History and Memory in Democratic Spain - Carolyn P. BoydAustralia's History under Howard! 1996-2007 - Andrew Bonnell! Martin CrottyDemocracy and Memory: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past - Vladimir TismaneanuCan Truth Be Negotiated? History Textbook Revision as a Means to Reconciliation - Falk PingelChallenged Histories and Collective Self-Concepts: Politics in History! Memory! and Time - Martin O. HeislerQuick Read Synopsis: The Politics of History in Comparative Perspective ...
