| Description |
1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Historians and the Present Conjuncture; Towards an Ethnographic Phenomenology of the Greek Spirit; The Construction of National Time: The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination; Shifting Boundaries, Clientalism and Balkan Identities; Notes on Two Discordant Histories: Armenia during World War I; The Distant Past: On the Political Use of History; The Two Levels of Public Use of the Past; Out of Place, Out of Time; Political Uses of History in Spain; Abstracts; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This work addresses political and historiographical uses of history. A group of leading historians and thinkers discuss questions of collective identity and representation in relation to the fluctuating concept of ""Past"" and its changing relevance. Among the topics are Greek historiographical questions, Balkan history, the Armenian problem, and the Plaestine historical narrative |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History -- Political aspects -- Mediterranean Region
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Group identity -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- World.
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Group identity
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Mediterranean Region -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Revel, Jacques
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| ISBN |
9781135315702 |
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1135315701 |
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9781315040141 |
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131504014X |
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