History and Politics : Remembrance As Legitimation.
History and politics are interlinked with unbreakable bonds, as is manifested primarily in the use of historical arguments in political disputes. Regardless of the ideological views represented, time period, and geographical location, politicians consistently and frequently use such arguments with a...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: History as argument. "History as argument" as the poor relative in modern historical-political research: state of the art and a proposal of a new approach / Manuel Becker
- The postcolonial aftermath of genocide: the politics of heritage in Namibia and Germany / Reinhart Kößler
- Russian imperisalism or communist revolution? the historiographical debate about Russian expansion / Wolfgang Mueller
- Rewriting the history of Vilnius / Theodore R. Weeks
- The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in commemorative speeches by Roman Herzog and Gerhard Schröder / Wiesław Wacławczyk
- Part two: History as instrument. Memory as a transnational heritage of Europe: a critical evaluation of Slovenia's 70th Second World War commemoration / Ksenija Vidmar Horvat
- Coming to terms with the Nazi past in West German visual culture, 1945-1948 / Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
- The necessity and legality of present war crimes trials in Germany / Martin Luber
- The democratic and socialist exploration of history: dealing with World War Two in post-war France and Czechoslovakia / Ulrike Lunow
- Decommunization and lustration: dealing with the past in Poland / Laura Koba
- History and politics
- remembrance and legitimation: the uses of the past amongst the Lopka of Bohoumdo in northern Benin / Essoham Solitoke
- The Gliniany Rokosz: how the tradition of rebellion against the king in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was established / Joanna Orzel
- Part three: History as science and politics. The politics of history: creators, mechanisms of action
- Poland as a case study / Katarzyna Kącka
- Between science and politics: Włodzimierz Bączkowski and the Polish Eastern Europe research / Ralph Schattkowsky
- The question of historicization of the Third Reich and the Holocaust in the context of post-enlightenment and post-redemptive memory: reflections at the margins of Saul Friedländer's historiography / Maciej Sawicki
- Memories of the displacement: the presidential election of in the Czech Republic through the lens of historical anthropology / Josef Kadeřábek and Zuzana Skořepová
- The politics of history in Hungary after 2010 / Péter Vágó
- Civil society by Hegel / Ilona Balcerczyk.