Beyond the canon : history for the twenty-first century

The Resource Beyond the canon : history for the twenty-first century

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Beyond the canon : history for the twenty-first century

Title remainder

history for the twenty-first century

Statement of responsibility

edited by Maria Grever and Siep Stuurman

Language

eng

Summary

Governments throughout the Western world are increasingly concerned about national identity and the transmission of historical knowledge. Beyond the Canon tackles these issues and their possible effects for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The editors have tied the various contributions together in a fascinating and highly relevant volume about the philosophical grounding of (de- )canonization processes and its consequences for the construction of narratives and the teaching of history in multicultural class rooms and museums. The authors reconfigure the different historical narratives and moral perspectives generated in the sometimes difficult processes of coming to terms with the pasts of Germany, South Africa and postcolonial Western nations. What happens when foundational concepts, such as the Enlightenment, the nation or gender, are subjected to critique and revision? Introducing English-speaking readers to important international scholars whose previous work has been in other languages, this volume is a valuable contribution to studies in International History

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

UKPGM

Dewey number

907.1
907.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

D16.2

LC item number

.B45 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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