The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945

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