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Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of
history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it
is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy.
Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes
explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring
History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in historical and
comparative perspective. Discussions include Japan's Comfort Women
and the Nanjing Massacre; Nazi genocide against the Jews, Gypsies,
Catholics and others; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Indochina
wars. The essays address controversies over textbook content around
the globe: How and why do specific representations of war evolve?
What are the international and national forces affecting how
textbook writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? How
do these forces differ from country to country? Other comparative
essays analyze nationalist and war controversies in German, US and
Chinese textbook debates.
Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of
history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it
is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy.
Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes
explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring
History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in historical and
comparative perspective. Discussions include Japan's Comfort Women
and the Nanjing Massacre; Nazi genocide against the Jews, Gypsies,
Catholics and others; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Indochina
wars. The essays address controversies over textbook content around
the globe: How and why do specific representations of war evolve?
What are the international and national forces affecting how
textbook writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? How
do these forces differ from country to country? Other comparative
essays analyze nationalist and war controversies in German, US and
Chinese textbook debates.
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both
Japanese and Americans, as well as for U.S.-Japan relations
throughout the last half of the twentieth century. It is now clear,
however, that memories and lessons learned from the bombings are
still being reworked and contested, perhaps even more heatedly than
they were in 1945. Tracking the development of that fifty-year
trajectory, this volume explores the ways in which the bomb has
shaped the self-image of both peoples: for Americans, the dominant
story is that the bombs provided an appropriate and necessary
conclusion to a just war; for Japanese, it is a symbol of their
victimization. The distinguished contributors analyze the ways in
which memories of the bombs, constantly reworked in the media, in
the arts, and in the political arena, continue to define important,
albeit often unacknowledged, undercurrents in the U.S.-Japan
relationship.
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both
Japanese and Americans, as well as for U.S.-Japan relations
throughout the last half of the twentieth century. It is now clear,
however, that memories and lessons learned from the bombings are
still being reworked and contested, perhaps even more heatedly than
they were in 1945. Tracking the development of that fifty-year
trajectory, this volume explores the ways in which the bomb has
shaped the self-image of both peoples: for Americans, the dominant
story is that the bombs provided an appropriate and necessary
conclusion to a just war; for Japanese, it is a symbol of their
victimization. The distinguished contributors analyze the ways in
which memories of the bombs, constantly reworked in the media, in
the arts, and in the political arena, continue to define important,
albeit often unacknowledged, undercurrents in the U.S.-Japan
relationship.
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