Contemporary history on trial : Europe since 1989 and the role of the expert historian /
"Is it right for historians to serve as 'expert witnesses' to past events? Since the end of the Cold War, a series of heated and politicised debates across Europe have questioned the 'truth' about painful episodes in the twentieth century. From the Holocaust to Srebrenica, i...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press
[2013]
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| Vydání: | Paperback edition. |
| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.17842168 |
Obsah:
- Contemporary history on trial
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction Harriet Jones, Kjell Östberg and Nico Randeraad
- 1 The responsibility of the historian Peter Mandler
- 2 Public uses of historyin contemporary Europe Klas-Göran Karlsson
- 3 Coming to terms with the (post-)colonial past in Belgium: the inquiry into the assassination of Patrice Lumumba Georgi Verbeeck
- 4 The Bloody Sunday tribunal and the role of the historian Paul Bew
- 5 Between scholarship and politics: experiences from the Commission on the Swedish Security Services Karl Molin
- 6 Historical research where scholarship and politics meet: the case of Srebrenica J. C.H.(Hans) Blom
- 7 Negotiated history? Bilateral historical commissions in twentieth-century Europe Marina Cattaruzza and Sacha Zala
- 8 The Italo-Slovenian historico-cultural commission Raoul Pupo
- 9 The state, the historians and the Algerian War in French memory, 1991-2004 Raphaëlle Branche
- 10 The German historians' debate about the upheavals of 1989 Martin Sabrow
- Conclusion
- Index