The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945

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This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history, including memory laws, monuments and memorials, state-archives, science policies, history in schools, truth commissions, historical expert commissions, the use of history in courts and tribunals etc. The handbook contributes to the study of history and public memory by combining elements of state-focused research in separate fields of study. By looking at the state’s memorialising capacities the book introduces an analytical perspective that is not often found in classical studies of the state. The handbook has a broad geographical focus and analyses cases from different regions around the world. The volume mainly tackles democratic contexts, although dictatorial regimes are not excluded. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv State-Sponsored History After 1945: An Introduction (Berber Bevernage, Nico Wouters)....Pages 1-36 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 Laws Governing the Historian’s Free Expression (Antoon De Baets)....Pages 39-67 Writing History Through Criminal Law: State-Sponsored Memory in Rwanda (Pietro Sullo)....Pages 69-85 French Memory Laws and the Ambivalence About the Meaning of Colonialism (Stiina Löytömäki)....Pages 87-100 History Watch by the European Court of Human Rights (Pierre-Olivier de Broux, Dorothea Staes)....Pages 101-119 Legislated History in Post-Communist Lithuania (Tomas Balkelis, Violeta Davoliūtė)....Pages 121-136 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 Archives, Agency, and the State (Trudy Huskamp Peterson)....Pages 139-159 Open Archives to Close the Past: Bulgarian Archival Disclosure on the Road to European Union Accession (Niké Wentholt)....Pages 161-175 Archives and Post-Colonial State-Sponsored History: A Dual State Approach Using the Case of the “Migrated Archives” (Michael Karabinos)....Pages 177-190 The “Cleansing” of Croatian Libraries in the 1990s and Beyond or How (Not) to Discard the Yugoslav Past (Dora Komnenović)....Pages 191-206 Front Matter ....Pages 207-207 State Authority and Historical Research: Institutional Settings and Trends Since 1945 (Lutz Raphael)....Pages 209-236 Official History Reconsidered: The Tadhana Project in the Philippines (Rommel A. Curaming)....Pages 237-253 History Riding on the Waves of Government Coalitions: The First Fifteen Years of the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland (2001–2016) (Idesbald Goddeeris)....Pages 255-269 Front Matter ....Pages 271-271 History in Schools (Peter Seixas)....Pages 273-288 History Teaching for the Unification of Europe: The Case of the Council of Europe (Luigi Cajani)....Pages 289-305 Teaching History Under Dictatorship: The Politics of Textbooks and the Legitimation of Authority in Mobutu’s Zaire (Denise Bentrovato)....Pages 307-321 The “National Dream” to Cultural Mosaic: State-Sponsored History in Canadian Education (Lynn Lemisko, Kurt Clausen)....Pages 323-338 China’s History School Curricula and Textbook Reform in East Asian Context (Gotelind Müller)....Pages 339-352 Teaching History in Israel–Palestine (Achim Rohde)....Pages 353-370 Front Matter ....Pages 371-371 History Museums (Ilaria Porciani)....Pages 373-397 “State-Supported History” at the Local Level: Ostdeutsche Heimatstuben and Expellee Museums in West Germany (Cornelia Eisler)....Pages 399-413 State Agency and the Definition of Historical Events: The Case of the Museo de La Memoria Y Los Derechos Humanos in Santiago, Chile (Patrizia Violi)....Pages 415-430 History Wars in Germany and Australia: National Museums and the Relegitimisation of Nationhood (Christian Wicke, Ben Wellings)....Pages 431-445 Front Matter ....Pages 447-447 Memorials and State-Sponsored History (Shanti Sumartojo)....Pages 449-476 Spaces of Nationhood and Contested Soviet War Monuments in Poland: The Warsaw Monument to the Brotherhood in Arms (Ewa Ochman)....Pages 477-493 Heritage Statecraft: Transcending Methodological Nationalism in the Russian Federation (Gertjan Plets)....Pages 495-509 Front Matter ....Pages 511-511 The State, the Courts, and the Lessons of History: An Overview, with Reference to Some Emblematic Cases (Richard J. Golsan)....Pages 513-534 The Historian’s Trial: John Demjanjuk and the Prosecution of Atrocity (Lawrence Douglas)....Pages 535-549 Germany Versus Germany: Resistance Against Hitler, Postwar Judiciary and the 1952 Remer Case (Vladimir Petrović)....Pages 551-565 Historical Testimony for the Government in US v. Philip Morris, et al. (Ramses Delafontaine)....Pages 567-581 A One-Sided Coin: A Critical Analysis of the Legal Accounts of the Cypriot Conflicts (Nasia Hadjigeorgiou)....Pages 583-595 Front Matter ....Pages 597-597 Truth Commissions and the Construction of History (Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm)....Pages 599-620 Truth Commissions and the Politics of History: A Critical Appraisal (Stephan Scheuzger)....Pages 621-636 The Brazilian National Truth Commission (2012–2014) as a State-Commissioned History Project (Nina Schneider, Gisele Iecker de Almeida)....Pages 637-652 The 9/11 Commission Report: History Under the Sign of Memory (Oz Frankel)....Pages 653-668 Truths of the Dictatorship: Chile’s Rettig and Valech Commissions as State-Sponsored History (Onur Bakiner)....Pages 669-684 Front Matter ....Pages 685-685 Historical Expert Commissions and Their Politics (Eva-Clarita Pettai)....Pages 687-712 Reconstituting the Dutch State in the NIOD Srebrenica Report (Erna Rijsdijk)....Pages 713-725 Memory Institutions and Policies in Colombia: The Historical Memory Group and the Historical Commission on the Conflict and Its Victims (Martha Cecilia Herrera, José Gabriel Cristancho Altuzarra, Carol Juliette Pertuz)....Pages 727-740 Diversified and Globalized Memories: The Limits of State-Sponsored History Commissions in East Asia (Seiko Mimaki)....Pages 741-755 Switzerland’s Independent Commission of Experts: State-Sponsored History and the Challenges of Political Partisanship (Alexander Karn)....Pages 757-771 Front Matter ....Pages 773-773 Historical State Apologies (Ąžuolas Bagdonas)....Pages 775-799 Apology Failures: Japan’s Strategies Towards China and Korea in Dealing with Its Imperialist Past (Torsten Weber)....Pages 801-816 The “Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples” in Its Historical Context (Francesca Dominello)....Pages 817-830 Narrative Robustness, Post-Apology Conduct, and Canada’s 1998 and 2008 Residential Schools Apologies (Matt James)....Pages 831-847 Back Matter ....Pages 849-877