Lessons of History: Learning from Catastrophe and Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe

ISBN 10: 1836950179 ISBN 13: 9781836950172

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on how cataclysmic events, primarily within Central and Eastern Europe, have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for understanding contemporary conflicts and issues. Spanning topics from the mediation of history within film to the influence of historical oppression on student activism, this volume re-evaluates historiography's potential for analyzing the past and engaging with the present.

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Maria Karlsson is a researcher and lecturer in the department of History at Lund University. She was awarded her doctorate in 2015 with a thesis entitled, Cultures of Denial. Comparing Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Denial, which compared Western, postwar denial of two of the twentieth century's most well-known cases of genocide. Her research interests include revisionism, the lessons of the Holocaust, and the difficulties of narrating controversial genocide history online.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1836950179
• ISBN 13: 9781836950172
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
• Herausgeber: Karlsson Klas-Göran, Karlsson Maria
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland