The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past is Taught to Children
Author:   Marc Ferro
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9781138132849


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   12 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Marc Ferro
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138132849


ISBN 10:   1138132845
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   12 October 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 ‘White history’, a vestige: Johannesburg 2 ‘Decolonized history’: Black Africa 3 Some remarks on a variant: Trinidad and the exorcist reaction 4 India: history without identity 5 The history of Islam or the history of the Arabs 6 The Persian and Turkish variants 7 From Christ the King to the nation-state: history in European eyes 8 Aspects and variations of Soviet history 9 History: the safeguard of national identity in Armenia 10 History in profile: Poland 11 A note on the history of China 12 History in Japan: a code or an ideology? 13 Deconstructing ‘white history’: the USA 14 ‘Forbidden history’: Chicanos and Aborigines 15 Analysis of a crisis: 1939–1945 revisited

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'Marc Ferro is remarkable in writing history enjoyed both by scholars and by people curious about the world in which they live and its past.' - Natalie Zemon Davis


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Marc Ferro (1924-) President of the Association of Research at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and co-director of the prestigious French review Annales.

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