The Cold War in the Classroom: International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices

ISBN-13: 9783030119980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 459 str.

Barbara Christophe; Peter Gautschi; Robert Thorp

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Chapter 1. Introduction; Barbara Christophe.

PART I. Textbook Memories.

Chapter 2. Textbook Memories of the Cold War: Introduction to Part I; Barbara Christophe.

Chapter 3. Manufacturing Coherence: How American textbooks incorporate diverse perspectives on the origins of the Cold War; Eva Fischer.- Chapter 4. Between radical shifts and Persistent Uncertainties: The Cold War in Russian history textbooks; Aleksandr Khodnev.

Chapter 5. The emergence of a multipolar world: Decentering the Cold War in Chinese history textbooks; Lisa Dyson.

Chapter 6. Americans and Russians as representatives of Us and Them. Contemporary Swedish school history textbooks and their portrayal of the central characters of the Cold War; Anders Persson.

Chapter 7. Images and Imaginings of the Cold War - with a focus on the Swiss view; Markus Furrer.

Chapter 8. Between non-human and individual agents: The attribution of agency in chapters on the Cold War in Flemish history textbooks; Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse.

Chapter 9. The Cold War and the Polish question; Joanna Wojdon.

Chapter 10. The Cold War in South African history textbooks; Linda Chisholm and David Fig.

Chapter 11. Dictatorship and the Cold War in official Chilean history textbooks; Teresa Oteiza and Claudia Castro

PART II. Teachers' Memories.

Chapter 12. Teacher's memories and the Cold War: Introduction to Part II; Robert Thorp and Barbara Christophe.

Chapter 13. Ambivalence and the illusion of hegemony: Remembering the Cold War in Germany and Switzerland; Barbara Christophe.- Chapter 14. 1968 in German-speaking Switzerland: Controversies and interpretations; Nadine Ritzer.