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Textbooks and War

Historical and Multinational Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Eugenia Roldán Vera

    1. Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico

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  2. Eckhardt Fuchs

    1. Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research , Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany

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  • Examines the interrelationship between textbooks, war and history education
  • Analyses a range of primary sources to explore how nations create their own identities through textbooks
  • Discusses the role of textbooks in shaping the understanding and opinions of the next generation

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media (PSEM)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: Historical and Multinational Perspectives on Textbooks and Wars

    • Eugenia Roldán Vera, Eckhardt Fuchs
    Pages 1-23

  3. 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
    Pages 25-45

  4. “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, Jorge Conde Calderón
    Pages 47-72

  5. 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
    Pages 73-96

  6. The Impact of the 1894–95 Sino-Japanese War on Japanese and Chinese Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis

    • Limin Bai
    Pages 97-120

  7. The Teaching of the First World War Through History Textbooks for Secondary Education in Greece (1960–2010): Aims and Priorities

    • Efstratios Vacharoglou
    Pages 121-136

  8. A “Matter of the Whites”? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI

    • Denise Bentrovato, Imke Rath
    Pages 137-169

  9. In the “Spirit of Courage and Sacrifice”: Shaping Collective Memories in School History Textbooks in Ontario, Canada (1921–2001)

    • Rose Fine-Meyer
    Pages 171-200

  10. International Institutions, Pacifism and the Attack on Warmongering Textbooks

    • Rita Hofstetter, Xavier Riondet
    Pages 201-232

  11. The School Uses of History: The Tangled Portrayal of the Spanish Civil War in History Textbooks (1970–98)

    • Mariano González Delgado, Manuel Ferraz Lorenzo
    Pages 233-254

  12. The Representation of Wars in History Textbooks for Secondary Schools in the Soviet Union (1940–50)

    • Dorena Caroli
    Pages 255-287

  13. Searching for “The Truth”? Narratives of the Second World War in Polish History Textbooks (1989–2015)

    • Sylwia Bobryk
    Pages 289-312

  14. The Vietnam War (1954–75) in History Textbooks: A View from Two Sides

    • Tran Thi Vinh, Ha Hai Hoang, Tran Duc Tuan
    Pages 313-332

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 333-344
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About this book

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.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico

    Eugenia Roldán Vera

  • Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research , Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany

    Eckhardt Fuchs

About the editors

Eugenia Roldán Vera is Professor of History of Education at the Department of Educational Research in the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico. Her research interests include the history of education in Mexico and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the history of textbooks, transnational dissemination of educational models and the ritual and performative aspects of schooling.
 
Eckhardt Fuchs is Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and Professor of History of Education and Comparative Education at the Technical University Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, and curriculum and textbook development.
 


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