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Title Textbooks and war : historical and multinational perspectives / Eugenia Roldán Vera, Eckhardt Fuchs, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
Palgrave studies in educational media.
Contents Introduction : historical and multinational perspectives on textbooks and wars / Eugenia Roldán Vera and Eckhardt Fuchs -- The representation of war and peace under the government of King Leopold I (1831-65) in Belgian textbooks for national history for secondary education (1910-60) / Jan van Wiele -- "When the guns thundered, all citizens became soldiers, and every breast breathed war" : education of the armed citizen in XIX century Colombia / Luis Alarcón Meneses and Jorge Conde Calderón -- The US-Mexican War (1846-48) in school textbooks : Mexico and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century / Eugenia Roldán Vera -- The impact of the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese War on Japanese and Chinese textbooks : a comparative analysis / Limin Bai -- The teaching of the First World War through history textbooks for secondary education in Greece (1960-2010) : aims and priorities / Efstratios Vacharoglou -- A "matter of the whites"? : contemporary textbook portrayals of the former African colonies in WWI / Denise Bentrovato and Imke Rath -- In the "spirit of courage and sacrifice" : shaping collective memories in school history textbooks in Ontario, Canada (1921-2001) / Rose Fine-Meyer -- International institutions, pacifism and the attack on warmongering textbooks / Rita Hofstetter and Xavier Riondet -- The school uses of history : the tangled portrayal of the Spanish Civil War in history textbooks (1970-98) / Mariano González Delgado and Manuel Ferraz Lorenzo -- The representation of wars in history textbooks for secondary schools in the Soviet Union (1940-50) / Dorena Caroli -- Searching for "the truth"? : narratives of the Second World War in Polish history textbooks (1989-2015) / Sylwia Bobryk -- The Vietnam War (1954-75) in history textbooks : a view from two sides / Tran Thi Vinh, Ha Hai Hoang and Tran Duc Tuan
Summary This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes. It has long been established that history textbooks play a key role in shaping the next generation's understanding of both past events and the concept of 'friend' and 'foe'. Considering both current and historical textbooks, often through a bi-national comparative approach, the editors and contributors investigate various important aspects of the relationships between textbooks and war, including the role wars play in the creation of national identities (whether the country is on the winning or losing side), the effacement of international wars to highlight a country's exceptionalism, or the obscuring of intra-national conflict through the ways in which a civil war is portrayed. This pioneering book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of textbooks, educational media and the relationships between curricula and war
Subject War -- History -- 19th century -- Textbooks
War -- History -- 20th century -- Textbooks
Military history, Modern -- 19th century -- Textbooks
Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Textbooks
War -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching
War -- History -- 20th century -- Study and teaching
Military history, Modern -- 19th century -- Study and teaching
Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Study and teaching
Education, Secondary -- Curricula.
Curriculum planning
Historiography
Form Electronic book
Author Roldán Vera, Eugenia, editor
Fuchs, Eckhardt, 1961- editor.
ISBN 9783319988030
3319988034