Textbooks and War: Historical and Multinational Perspectives

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