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1 online resource (vii, 307 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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CGS Studies ; Volume 6
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CGS studies ; v. 6.
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| Summary |
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 high degree of effectiveness. Driven by a variety of motives, they use the category of the past, (re)interpret it, and decide what should be remembered and what should be removed from the so-called collective memory. In practice, this means that a properly prepared and delivered narrative of the past can become a powerful instrument in the hands of the ruling class, influencing the social and political reality of the country concerned. Control of the past and its correct reconstruction can thus effectively contribute to gaining, boosting, and consolidating power by a political entity. An appropriately shaped awareness of the past thus serves an only ancillary role to politics, satisfying social expectations and ideological visions. Thus, the past, or rather the memory of it, when becoming a topic of interest in the domain of politics, forces the creators of the politics of history to improve the tools and mechanisms they wield to ensure its more efficient use. -- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Necessity and legality of present war crimes trials in Germany / Martin Luber -- 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 -- 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. 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 -- 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 -- Politics of history in Hungary after 2010 / Péter Vágó -- Civil society by Hegel / Ilona Balcerczyk. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Europa. |
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History -- Political aspects.
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History. |
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Political science -- History.
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Political science. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
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Geschichte. |
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Geschichtswissenschaft. |
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Politische Theorie. |
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Politisches Denken. |
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Geschichtspolitik. |
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Geschichtsschreibung. |
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Kollektives Gedächtnis. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Kącka, Katarzyna, 1977- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History and politics. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1527505588 (OCoLC)1014460004 |
| ISBN |
9781527505582 (electronic book) |
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1527505588 (electronic book) |
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9781527509580 |
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1527509583 |
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1527505588 |
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