History is an important, dangerous, and fragile subject.
Historical thought can be censored in widely diverging political
and historiographical contexts, as historians are well aware. Yet
the problems of censorship, often thought to be obvious, are rarely
studied. Filling a significant void, this guide supplies
information on the censorship of historical thought and the fate of
persecuted historians in over 130 countries from Afghanistan to
Zimbabwe and from 1945 to 2000. With each entry providing a
chronological overview of cases and giving a full listing of
sources, the book is the first systematic effort to overview the
repression of historical thought.
Aiming to encompass all countries in which censorship and
persecution have taken place, De Baets sketches a world map of
repression that goes beyond the well-known and well-studied cases.
It assembles scattered data from three types of sources: the works
of censors and censored, historical and biographical dictionaries
and historiographical surveys, and reports from international human
rights organizations. Showing the universality of historical
censorship and its infinite variety in amount and degree, the book
also provides a basis for further comparative research.
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