USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY OR HOW THE PAST IS TAUGHT TO CHILDREN
How the past is taught to children
Marc Ferro, with a new preface by the author ; translated by Norman Stone and Andrew Brown.
- Rev. ed.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- 390
- Routledge classics .
- Routledge classics. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-375) and index.
Contents: 1. 'White history', a vestige: Johannesburg -- 2. 'Decolonized history': Black Africa -- 3. Some remarks on a variant: Trinidad and the exorcist reaction -- 4. India: history without identity -- 5. The history of Islam or the history of the Arabs -- 6. The Persian and Turkish variants -- 7. From Christ the King to the nation-state: history in European eyes -- 8. Aspects and variations of Soviet history -- 9. History: the safeguard of national identity in Armenia -- 10. History in profile: Poland -- 11. A note on the history of China -- 12. History in Japan: a code or an ideology? -- 13. Deconstructing 'white history': the USA -- 14. 'Forbidden history': Chicanos and Aborigines -- 15. Analysis of a crisis: 1939-1945 revisited.
Translated from the French.
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History Historiography. Prejudices in children. Textbook bias.--Study and teaching (Elementary)