The nation, Europe, and the world : textbooks and curricula in transition /

Textbooks in history, geography and the social sciences provide important insights into the ways in which nation-states project themselves. Based on case studies of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, this volume shows the role that concep...

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Other Authors: Schissler, Hanna (Editor), Nuhoğlu Soysal, Yasemin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Projections of identity in French and German history and civics textbooks / Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal, Teresa Bertilotti, and Sabine Mannitz
  • Privileged migrants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands : return migrants, repatriates, and expellees after 1945 / Rainer Ohliger
  • What counts as history and how much does history count? The case of French secondary education / Jacques E.C. Hymans
  • The decline and rise of the nation in German history education / Julian Dierkes
  • Nation and the other in Greek and Turkish history textbooks / Vasilia Lilian Antoniou and Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal
  • "Europe" in Bulgarian conceptions of nationhood / Tim Pilbrow
  • Learning about Europe and the world : schools, teachers, and textbooks in Russia after 1991 / Robert Maier
  • Europe in Spanish textbooks : a vague image in the space of memory / Miguel A. Pereyra and Antonio Luzón
  • World history and general education : how to bring the world into the classroom / Michael Geyer
  • Cartographies of connection : ocean maps as metaphors for inter-area history / Kären Wigen
  • World history : making sense of the present / Hanna Schissler.