Partisan Histories

PROFESSOR PADRAIC KENNEY is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, USA. He is the author of Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists 1945-1950 (Cornell University Press, 1997), and A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 (Princeton University Press, 2002). MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN is Assistant Professor at Florida State University, USA. He is the author of Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II (Cambridge University Press).

History in Politics; P.Kenney & M.P.Friedman PART I: NEW REGIMES The Past in the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany; A.H.Beattie Apologizing for the Past Between Japan and Korea; A.Dudden Breaking the Silence in Post-Authoritarian Chile; K.Hite Political Uses of the Recent Past in the Spanish Post-authoritarian Democracy; C.Humlebæk PART II: NEW NATIONS Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations (Kazakhstan and Armenia); R.Grigor Suny Knowledge For Politics: Partisan Histories and Communal Mobilization in India and Pakistan; S.Das & S.Basu Historiophobia or the Enslavement of History: The Role of the 1948 Ethnic Cleansing in the Contemporary Peace Process; I.Pappe Nigeria: The Past in the Present; T.Falola PART III: NEW LESSONS Histories and 'Lessons' of the Vietnam War; P.Hagopian