Textbooks and War: Historical and Multinational Perspectives

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This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes. It has long been established that history textbooks play a key role in shaping the next generation’s understanding of both past events and the concept of ‘friend’ and ‘foe’. Considering both current and historical textbooks, often through a bi-national comparative approach, the editors and contributors investigate various important aspects of the relationships between textbooks and war, including the role wars play in the creation of national identities (whether the country is on the winning or losing side), the effacement of international wars to highlight a country’s exceptionalism, or the obscuring of intra-national conflict through the ways in which a civil war is portrayed. This pioneering book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of textbooks, educational media and the relationships between curricula and war. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction: Historical and Multinational Perspectives on Textbooks and Wars (Eugenia Roldán Vera, Eckhardt Fuchs)....Pages 1-23 The Representation of War and Peace Under the Government of King Leopold I (1831–65) in Belgian Textbooks for National History for Secondary Education (1910–60) (Jan Van Wiele)....Pages 25-45 “When the Guns Thundered, All Citizens Became Soldiers, and Every Breast Breathed War”: Education of the Armed Citizen in XIX Century Colombia (Luis Alarcón Meneses, Jorge Conde Calderón)....Pages 47-72 The US-Mexican War (1846–48) in School Textbooks: Mexico and the United States in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Eugenia Roldán Vera)....Pages 73-96 The Impact of the 1894–95 Sino-Japanese War on Japanese and Chinese Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis (Limin Bai)....Pages 97-120 The Teaching of the First World War Through History Textbooks for Secondary Education in Greece (1960–2010): Aims and Priorities (Efstratios Vacharoglou)....Pages 121-136 A “Matter of the Whites”? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI (Denise Bentrovato, Imke Rath)....Pages 137-169 In the “Spirit of Courage and Sacrifice”: Shaping Collective Memories in School History Textbooks in Ontario, Canada (1921–2001) (Rose Fine-Meyer)....Pages 171-200 International Institutions, Pacifism and the Attack on Warmongering Textbooks (Rita Hofstetter, Xavier Riondet)....Pages 201-232 The School Uses of History: The Tangled Portrayal of the Spanish Civil War in History Textbooks (1970–98) (Mariano González Delgado, Manuel Ferraz Lorenzo)....Pages 233-254 The Representation of Wars in History Textbooks for Secondary Schools in the Soviet Union (1940–50) (Dorena Caroli)....Pages 255-287 Searching for “The Truth”? Narratives of the Second World War in Polish History Textbooks (1989–2015) (Sylwia Bobryk)....Pages 289-312 The Vietnam War (1954–75) in History Textbooks: A View from Two Sides (Tran Thi Vinh, Ha Hai Hoang, Tran Duc Tuan)....Pages 313-332 Back Matter ....Pages 333-344