Politics Of The Past

Author : Peter Gathercole,David Lowenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134866427

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The Politics of the Past by Peter Gathercole,David Lowenthal Pdf

'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in archaeology. The four organizing themes of The Politics of the Past are the forms and consequences of the Eurocentric heritage, the conflicting perspectives of rulers and ruled, the significance of administrative and institutional rivalries, and the cleavages that divide professional from popular views of archaeology. Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and other scholars will find The Politics of the Past illuminating and provocative. It will enrich historical and archaeological inquiry and interpretation, and ramify their relevance for public policy.

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780585455068

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Politics and the Past by John Torpey Pdf

Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics' has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of international affairs in coming years. In addition to broad theoretical and philosophical reflection, the book includes discussions of the politics of reparations in specific countries and regions, including the United States, France, Latin America, Japan, Canada, and Rwanda. The volume presents a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective on the many campaigns for reparations currently afoot in a variety of contexts around the world. All readers working or teaching in the fields of transitional justice, the politics of memory, and social movements will find this book a rich and provocative contribution to this complex debate.

Author : Hannes Swoboda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9282326276

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Politics of the Past by Hannes Swoboda Pdf

Author : Vincent S. Leung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425728

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The Politics of the Past in Early China by Vincent S. Leung Pdf

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China. Leung explores why it was so important and to what end.

Author : David Art
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139448838

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The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria by David Art Pdf

This book argues that Germans and Austrians have dealt with the Nazi past very differently and these differences have had important consequences for political culture and partisan politics in the two countries. Drawing on different literatures in political science, Art builds a framework for understanding how public deliberation transforms the political environment in which it occurs. The book analyzes how public debates about the 'lessons of history' created a culture of contrition in Germany that prevented a resurgent far right from consolidating itself in German politics after unification. By contrast, public debates in Austria nourished a culture of victimization that provided a hospitable environment for the rise of right-wing populism. The argument is supported by evidence from nearly two hundred semi-structured interviews and an analysis of the German and Austrian print media over a twenty-year period.

Author : Alekse? I. Miller,Marii?a? Lipman
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155225154

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The Convolutions of Historical Politics by Alekse? I. Miller,Marii?a? Lipman Pdf

Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824840068

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Exhibiting the Past by Kirk A. Denton Pdf

During the Mao era, China’s museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late 1970s and 1980s and the advent of globalization and market reforms in the 1990s, China underwent a radical social and economic transformation that has led to a vastly more heterogeneous culture and polity. Yet China is dominated by a single Leninist party that continues to rely heavily on its revolutionary heritage to generate political legitimacy. With its messages of collectivism, self-sacrifice, and class struggle, that heritage is increasingly at odds with Chinese society and with the state’s own neoliberal ideology of rapid-paced development, glorification of the market, and entrepreneurship. In this ambiguous political environment, museums and their curators must negotiate between revolutionary ideology and new kinds of historical narratives that reflect and highlight a neoliberal present. In Exhibiting the Past, Kirk Denton analyzes types of museums and exhibitionary spaces, from revolutionary history museums, military museums, and memorials to martyrs to museums dedicated to literature, ethnic minorities, and local history. He discusses red tourism—a state sponsored program developed in 2003 as a new form of patriotic education designed to make revolutionary history come alive—and urban planning exhibition halls, which project utopian visions of China’s future that are rooted in new conceptions of the past. Denton’s method is narratological in the sense that he analyzes the stories museums tell about the past and the political and ideological implications of those stories. Focusing on “official” exhibitionary culture rather than alternative or counter memory, Denton reinserts the state back into the discussion of postsocialist culture because of its centrality to that culture and to show that state discourse in China is neither monolithic nor unchanging. The book considers the variety of ways state museums are responding to the dramatic social, technological, and cultural changes China has experienced over the past three decades.

Author : Shari J. Cohen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0822323990

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Politics Without a Past by Shari J. Cohen Pdf

DIVArgues that the rise to power of quasi-nationalist demagogues in many post-communist countries is the result of "organized forgetting" orchestrated by communist regimes that left these countries with little common history./div

Author : Deema Kaneff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452984

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Who Owns the Past? by Deema Kaneff Pdf

Post-socialist development in Bulgaria has led to fundamental changes in social life and political relations and threatened village identity. This study underlinessome of the fundamental processes at work across eastern Europe that explain the widespread ambiguity in regard to post-socialist reform.

Author : Herbert B. Adams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1333459262

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Is History Past Politics? (Classic Reprint) by Herbert B. Adams Pdf

Excerpt from Is History Past Politics? A brief review of Mr. Freeman's Philosophy of History will serve to set our chosen motto in a'clear light. He regarded Greek politics as the beginning of the world's state life. For him the Achaian League of Greek cities was the historic fore runner of the Federal Union of these United States. For him the real life of ancient history lay not in its separation from the affairs of our own time, but in its close connection with them. (office of the Historical Professor, For him the records of Athenian archons and Roman consuls were essential parts of the same living European history as the records of Venetian doges and English kings. It mattered little to this large-hearted, broad-minded historian of Comparative Politics whether he was writing of free Hellas or free England, of Magna Graecia or the United States. He wrote political articles on the Eastern Question and the Danube provinces for the Manchester Guardian or Saturday Review in the same spirit in which he wrote historical essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Stiina Loytomaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136007361

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Law and the Politics of Memory by Stiina Loytomaki Pdf

Law and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines law’s role as a tool of memory politics in the efforts of contemporary societies to work through the traumas of their past. Using the examples of French colonialism and Vichy, as well as addressing the politics of memory surrounding the Holocaust, communism and colonialism, this book provides a critical exploration of law’s role in ‘belated’ transitional justice contexts. The book examines how and why law has become so central in processes in which the past is constituted as a series of injustices that need to be rectified and can allegedly be repaired. As such, it explores different legal modalities in processes of working through the past; addressing the implications of regulating history and memory through legal categories and legislative acts, whilst exploring how trials, restitution cases, and memory laws manage to fulfil such varied expectations as clarifying truth, rendering homage to memory and reconciling societies. Legal scholars, historians and political scientists, especially those working with transitional justice, history and memory politics in particular, will find this book a stimulating exploration of the specificity of law as an instrument and forum of the politics of memory.

Author : Anne Orford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480949

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International Law and the Politics of History by Anne Orford Pdf

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

Author : Tipene O'Regan
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927131992

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New Myths and Old Politics by Tipene O'Regan Pdf

Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi’s legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngāi Tahu’s Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O’Regan describes what happened when claims of New Age mysticism attempted to undermine traditional whakapapa and academic scholarship.

Author : Stefan Berger,Caner Tekin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785338809

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History and Belonging by Stefan Berger,Caner Tekin Pdf

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.

Author : Kalle Pihlainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315521596

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The Work of History by Kalle Pihlainen Pdf

Since the appearance of Hayden White’s seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally. Despite the radical theoretical shift marked by constructivism and elaborated in detail by its proponents, confusion regarding many of its practical and ethical consequences persists, however, and its position on truth and meaning is routinely misconstrued. To remedy this situation, The Work of History seeks to mediate between constructivist theory and history practitioners’ intuitions about the nature of their work, especially as these relate to the so-called fact–fiction debate and to the literary challenges involved in the production of historical accounts. In doing so, the book also offers much-needed insight into debates about our experiential relations with the past, the political use of history and the role of facts in the contestation of power.