The Use and Abuse of History

Or How the Past is Taught to Children

Marc Ferro

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Routledge
21 August 2003

History; History: theory & methods

Series: Routledge Classics

Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China.

This title has now been extensively revised by Marc Ferro, a well respected historian, and presents the different narratives that constitute the histories of countries as diverse as India, Iran, Trinidad and the United States makes for fascinating reading in their own right. What makes this book so valuable, though, is what these narratives tell us about the societies which create them -- how much is history distorted in order to condition the minds of those who are taught it? Use and Abuse of History appeals to anyone with a general interested in history.

By: Marc Ferro
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 446g
ISBN: 9780415285926
ISBN 10: 0415285925
Series: Routledge Classics
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 21 August 2003
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 ‘White history’, a vestige: Johannesburg 2 ‘Decolonized history’: Black Africa 3 Some remarks on a variant: Trinidad and the exorcist reaction 4 India: history without identity 5 The history of Islam or the history of the Arabs 6 The Persian and Turkish variants 7 From Christ the King to the nation-state: history in European eyes 8 Aspects and variations of Soviet history 9 History: the safeguard of national identity in Armenia 10 History in profile: Poland 11 A note on the history of China 12 History in Japan: a code or an ideology? 13 Deconstructing ‘white history’: the USA 14 ‘Forbidden history’: Chicanos and Aborigines 15 Analysis of a crisis: 1939–1945 revisited

Marc Ferro (1924-) President of the Association of Research at the Aecole des Hautes Aetudes en Sciences Sociales and co-director of the prestigious French review Annales.

Reviews for The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past is Taught to Children

'Marc Ferro is remarkable in writing history enjoyed both by scholars and by people curious about the world in which they live and its past.' - Natalie Zemon Davis