Contemporary history on trial : Europe since 1989 and the role of the expert historian / edited by Harriet Jones, Kjell èOstberg and Nico Randeraad.

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.