The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945

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State-Sponsored History after 1945: An Introduction - Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters.- Part 1: Memory Laws and Legislated History.- Overview Chapter.- Laws Governing the Historian's Free Expression - Antoon De Baets.- Case Studies.- Writing History through Criminal law: State-Sponsored Memory in Rwanda - Pietro Sullo.- French memory laws and the ambivalence about the meaning of colonialism - Stiina Loeytoemaki.- History Watch by the European Court of Human Rights - Pierre-Olivier de Broux and Dorothea Staes.- Legislated History in Post-Communist Lithuania - Tomas Balkelis and Violeta Davoliute.- Part 2: and Libraries.- Overview Chapter.- Archives, Agency and the State - Trudy Huskamp Peterson.- Case Studies.- Open to Close the Past: Bulgarian archival disclosure on the road to European Union accession - Nike Wentholt.- and Post-Colonial State-Sponsored History: A dual state approach using the case of the Migrated Archives - Michael Karabinos.- The Cleansing of Croatian Libraries in the 1990s and Beyond or How (Not) to Discard the Yugoslav Past - Dora Komnenovic.- Part 3: Research Institutes and Policies.- Overview Chapter.- State Authority and Historical Research. Institutional Settings and Trends since 1945 - Lutz Raphael.- Case Studies.- Official History Reconsidered: The Tadhana Project in the Philippines - Rommel A. Curaming.- History riding on the waves of government coalitions. The first fifteen years of the Institute of Remembrance in Poland (2001-2016) - Idesbald Goddeeris.- Part 4: Schools, Curricula and Textbooks.- Overview Chapter.- History in Schools - Peter Seixas.- Case Studies.- History teaching for the unification of Europe: The case of the Council of Europe - Luigi Cajani.- Teaching History under Dictatorship: The Politics of Textbooks and the Legitimation of Authority in Mobutu's Zaire - Denise Bentrovato.- The National Dream to Cultural Mosaic: State-Sponsored History in Canadian Education - Lynn Lemisko & Kurt W. Clausen.- China's school curricula and textbook reform in East Asian context -- Gotelind Muller.- Teaching History in Israel-Palestine - Achim Rohde.- Part 5: Museums and Musealisation.- Overview Chapter.- History Museums - Ilaria Porciani.- Case Studies.- State-supported history at the local level: Ostdeutsche Heimatstuben and expellee museums in West Germany - Cornelia Eisler.- State Agency and the Definition of Historical Events: the case of the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Santiago, Chile - Patrizia Violi.- History Wars in Germany and Australia: Museums and the Re-legitimisation of nationhood - Christian Wicke and Ben Wellings.- Part 6: Memorials, Monuments and Heritage.- Overview Chapter.- Memorials and state-sponsored - Shanti Sumartojo.- Case Studies.- Spaces of nationhood and contested Soviet war monuments in Poland: the Warsaw Monument to the Brotherhood in Arms - Ewa Ochman.- Heritage Statecraft: transcending methodological nationalism in the Russian Federation - Gertjan Plets.- Part 7: Courts, Tribunals and Judicial History.- Overview Chapter.- The State, the Courts, and the Lessons of History: An Overview, with Reference to Some Emblematic Cases - Richard J. Golsan.- Case Studies .- The Historian's Trial: John Demjanjuk and the Prosecution of Atrocity - Lawrence Douglas.- Germany vs. Germany: Resistance against Hitler, Postwar Judiciary and the 1952 Remer Case - Vladimir Petrovic.- Historical Testimony for the Government in US v. Philip Morris, et al. - Ramses Delafontaine.- A one-sided coin: A critical analysis of the legal accounts of the Cypriot conflicts - Nasia Hadjigeorgiou.- Part 8: Truth Commissions and Commissioned History.- Overview Chapter.- Truth Commissions and the Construction of History - Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm.- Case Studies.- Truth Commissions and the Politics of History: A Critical Appraisal - Stephan Scheuzger.- The Brazilian Truth Commission (2012-2014) as a state-commissioned project -- Nina Schneider and Gisele Iecker de Almeida.- The 9/11 Commission Report: History Under the Sign of Memory - Oz Frankel.- Truths of the Dictatorship: Chile's Rettig and Valech Commissions as State-Sponsored History - Onur Bakiner.- Part 9: Historical Expert Commissions and Commissioned History.- Overview Chapter.- Historical Expert Commissions and their Politics - Eva-Clarita Pettai.- Case Studies.- Reconstituting the Dutch State in the NIOD Srebrenica Report - Erna Rijsdijk.- Memory institutions and policies in Colombia: The historical memory group and the historical commission on the conflict and its victims - Martha Cecilia Herrera, Jose Gabriel Cristancho and Carol Juliette Pertuz.- Diversified and Globalized Memories: The Limits of State-Sponsored History Commissions in East Asia - Seiko Mimaki.- Switzerland's Independent Commission of Experts: State-Sponsored History and the Challenges of Political Partisanship - Alexander Karn.- Part 10: Official Apologies and Diplomatic History.- Overview Chapter.- Historical state apologies - Azuolas Bagdonas.- Case Studies.- Failures: Japan's Strategies towards China and Korea in Dealing with its Imperialist Past - Torsten Weber.- The Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples in its Historical Context -- Francesca Dominello.- Narrative Robustness, Post-Apology Conduct, and Canada's 1998 and 2008 Residential Schools Apologies - Matt James.