The use and abuse of history, or, How the past is taught to children / Marc Ferro, with a new preface by the author ; translated by Norman Stone and Andrew Brown.

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	Rev. ed.
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2003.
Main Author:	Ferro, Marc
Series:	Routledge classics
Subjects:	History > Study and teaching. Historiography. Prejudices in children. Textbook bias.
Format:	Book

The use and abuse of history, or, How the past is taught to children /

Table of Contents:

1. 'White history', a vestige: Johannesburg
2. 'Decolonized history': Black Africa
3. Some remarks on a variant: Trinidad and the exorcist reaction
4. India: history without identity
5. The history of Islam or the history of the Arabs
6. The Persian and Turkish variants
7. From Christ the King to the nation-state: history in European eyes
8. Aspects and variations of Soviet history
9. History: the safeguard of national identity in Armenia
10. History in profile: Poland
11. A note on the history of China
12. History in Japan: a code or an ideology?
13. Deconstructing 'white history': the USA
14. 'Forbidden history': Chicanos and Aborigines
15. Analysis of a crisis: 1939-1945 revisited.