LEADER 04211nam 2200601 450 001 9910821198703321 005 20230817192329.0 010 $a1-78920-200-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781789202007 035 $a(CKB)4100000007820711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5521540 035 $a(DE-B1597)636771 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781789202007 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007820711 100 $a20190416d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe engaged historian $eperspectives on the intersections of politics, activism and the historical profession /$fedited by Stefan Berger 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford :$cBerghahn,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (322 pages) 225 1 $aMaking sense of history ;$vVolume 37 311 $a1-78920-199-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 330 $aOn the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship. From the influence of historical scholarship on world political leaders to the present-day participation of researchers in post-conflict societies and the Occupy movement, these studies afford distinctive, humane, and stimulating views on historical practice and practitioners 410 0$aMaking sense of history ;$vVolume 37. 606 $aHistoriography 606 $aHistory$xPolitical aspects 606 $aHistorians$xProfessional ethics 606 $aObjectivity 610 $a20th Century Historians. 610 $aHistorians in Politics. 610 $aHistorical Engagement. 610 $aHistoriography and Politics. 610 $aPolitical Action and Historical Research. 610 $aPolitical Historians. 615 0$aHistoriography. 615 0$aHistory$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aHistorians$xProfessional ethics. 615 0$aObjectivity. 676 $a907.2 686 $aNB 5100$qSEPA$2rvk 702 $aBerger$b Stefan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821198703321 996 $aThe engaged historian$93921374 997 $aUNINA