The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945 [Hardcover]

This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history, including memory laws, monuments and memorials, state-archives, science policies, history in schools, truth commissions, historical expert commissions, the use of history in courts and tribunals etc. The handbook contributes to the study of history and public memory by combining elements of state-focused research in separate fields of study. By looking at the states memorialising capacities the book introduces an analytical perspective that is not often found in classical studies of the state. The handbook has a broad geographical focus and analyses cases from different regions around the world. The volume mainly tackles democratic contexts, although dictatorial regimes are not excluded.   

State-Sponsored History after 1945: An Introduction  Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters.- Part 1: Memory Laws and Legislated History.- Overview Chapter.- Laws Governing the Historians 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 L?yt?m?ki.- 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 Davolikt.- Part 2: Archives and Libraries.- Overview Chapter.- Archives, Agency and the State  Trudy Huskamp Peterson.- Case Studies.- Open Archives to Close the Past: Bulgarian archival disclosure on the road to European Union accession  Nik? Wentholt.- Archives and Post-Colonial State-Sponsored History: A dual slî