Contemporary history on trial : Europe since 1989 and the role of the expert historian /

Contemporary history on trial : Europe since 1989 and the role of the expert historian / edited by Harriet Jones, Kjell èOstberg and Nico Randeraad. - Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. - xii, 204 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The responsibility of the historian / Peter Mandler -- Public uses of history in contemporary Europe / Klas-Gèoran Karlsson -- Coming to terms with the (post-)colonial past in Belgium: the inquiry into the assassination of Patrice Lumumba / Georgi Verbeeck -- The Bloody Sunday tribunal and the role of the historian / Paul Bew -- Between scholarship and politics: experiences from the Commission on the Swedish Security Services / Karl Molin -- Historical research where scholarship and politics meet: the case of Srebrenica / Hans Blom -- Negotiated history? Bilateral historical commissions in twentieth-century Europe / Marina Cattaruzza and Sacha Zala -- The Italo-Slovenian historico-cultural commission / Raoul Pupo -- The state, the historians and the Algerian War in French memory, 1991-2004 / Raphaèelle Branche -- The German historians' debate about the upheavals of 1989 / Martin Sabrow.

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Collective memory--Europe.


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