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The Past in the Present: The Construction of Polish History

The Past in the Present: The Construction of Polish History

Traba, Robert
Grudzińska-Gross, Irena
Tymowski, Andrzej W.

Hardcover

Series: Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies, Book 8

PhilosophyEastern European HistoryGeneral European History

ISBN10: 3631640471
ISBN13: 9783631640470
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jan 21 2015
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
What do we remember from our national past and why? What are the dangers of history being (mis-)appropriated by politicians? Past in the Present provides a critical analysis of recent disputes over Polish historiography. The author uses theories of collective memory as a guideline, and the Polish-German borderlands as his leitmotif. Western academic currents and long-standing (and often forgotten) Polish intellectual traditions serve as backdrop. Throughout his work - with topics ranging from Golo Mann and Stefan Czarnowski to the other side of memory and the political cult of the fallen - Traba advocates modernization and polyphony in the construction of a new Polish history.

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