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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815060603321

Titolo

Political uses of the past : the recent Mediterranean experience / / editors, Jacques Revel, Giovanni Levi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-135-31577-9

0-7146-8244-6

1-315-04014-X

1-135-31570-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeviGiovanni <1939->

RevelJacques <1942->

Disciplina

909/.09822

Soggetti

Religion and politics - Mediterranean Region

Human geography - Mediterranean Region

Mediterranean Region Historiography

Mediterranean Region Politics and government

Europe Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of Mediterranean Historical Review (ISSN 0951-8967), Vol.16, No.l (June 2001), [Political Uses of the Past: The Recent Mediterranean Experience]"--T.p. verso.

First published in 2002 by Frank Cass.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.