War, nation, memory : international perspectives on World War II in school history textbooks

The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark epis...

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Main Authors Crawford, Keith, 1950- (Author), Foster, Stuart J., 1960- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2008]
SeriesResearch in curriculum and instruction.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 > Textbooks > History.
Collective memory.
National characteristics.
Education > History.
Educational: History.
History of education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806619924
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-659-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. On war, nation, and memory
  • Chapter 2. Learning about the holocaust: A comparative analysis of english and erman history textbooks
  • Chapter 3. Wartime or war crime? The destruction of dresden in english history textbooks
  • Chapter 4. Wartime resistance and collaboration in French history textbooks
  • Chapter 5. The sino-japanese war and the politics of official remembrance in the people's republic of China
  • Chapter 6. Responsibility and victimhood in Japanese history textbooks
  • Chapter 7. Ideology and narrative: Portrayals of world war ii in U.S. History textbooks
  • Chapter 8. Textbook portrayals of British women during world war ii, 1942-2004
  • Chapter 9. The British empire and commonwealth in world war ii: Selection and omission in english history textbooks
  • Chapter 10. Postscript: World war ii and the landscape of memory.

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