The Engaged Historian : : Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession /

The Engaged Historian : : Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession / / ed. by Stefan Berger.

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On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for as long as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Avgeridis, Manos,
Berger, Stefan,
De Baets, Antoon,
Fan, Xin,
Gazi, Effi,
Iggers, Georg G.,
Karamanolakis, Vangelis,
Liakos, Antonis,
Lucas, Meize Regina de Lucena,
Okamoto, Michihiro,
Pihlainen, Kalle,
Rüsen, Jörn,
Salvanou, Emilia,
Schneider, Nina,
Wiklund, Martin,
Witoszek, Nina,
HerausgeberIn:
Berger, Stefan,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION Historical Writing and Civic Engagement: A Symbiotic Relationship
  • CHAPTER 1 Engagement: Metahistorical Considerations on a Disputed Attitude in Historical Studies
  • CHAPTER 2 The Ideal of Justice and Its Significance for Historians as Engaged Intellectuals
  • CHAPTER 3 Committed Writing: History and Narrative Communication Revisited
  • Chapter 4 The Historian-King: Political Leaders, Historical Consciousness and Wise Government
  • CHAPTER 5 Historians with a Cause: Refugees’ Memory and Historical Practices in Interwar Greece
  • CHAPTER 6 The Making of the Zhanguo Ce Clique: The Politicization of History Knowledge in Wartime China
  • CHAPTER 7 The Historicization of World War II in Greece after the Civil War: Looking Back on the Public Debate over a Lecture by British Historian C.M. Woodhouse
  • CHAPTER 8 Historians as Dissidents: Intellectual ‘Eros’ in Action
  • CHAPTER 9 The Social Movement History as a Social Movement in and of Itself
  • CHAPTER 10 Professional Historical Writing and Human Rights Engagement in the Twenty-First Century: Innovative Approaches and Their Dilemmas
  • CHAPTER 11 Using the Past The Brazilian Cinema between Censorship and Representation
  • CHAPTER 12 Historians and the Trauma of the Past: The Destruction of Security Files on Citizens in Greece, 1989
  • CHAPTER 13 Historians and/in the New Media
  • CHAPTER 14 Street History Coming to Terms with the Past in Occupy Movements
  • AFTERWORD The Historian as an Engaged Intellectual: Historical Writing and Social Criticism – A Personal Retrospective
  • Index

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