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The Latest Catastrophe (Paperback)
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The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by
conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific
traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians
can find themselves researching the same events that they
themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and
practices of what is called "contemporary history," a history of
the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field
between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and
objectivity and subjectivity. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of
contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to
their past, especially their legacies of political violence.
Focusing on France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United
States, he shows that for contemporary historians, the recent past
has become a problem to be solved. No longer unfolding as a series
of traditions to be respected or a set of knowledge to be
transmitted and built upon, history today is treated as a constant
act of mourning or memory, an attempt to atone. Historians must
also negotiate with strife within this field, as older scholars who
may have lived through events clash with younger historians who
also claim to understand the experiences. Ultimately, The Latest
Catastrophe shows how historians, at times against their will, have
themselves become actors in a history still being made.
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