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()(1.LLaura Hein and Mark Selden have performed an enormously valuable service with this collection of essays. The assessments of textbooks in Japan, Germany, and the United States raises disturbing questions about the force of nationalism in didtorting the past in all these countries. For Americans especially, this book should lead us to question whether we truly have a free marketplace of ideas, and to ponder the dangerous consequences of mis-educating our young.L-Howard Zinn, author ofLA PeopleLs History of the United StatesL 2.LThis fascinating collection of essays argues that teaching and learning about the past helps to shape the political battles and choices of the present. LCensoring HistoryLlays bare the politics that produce historical indifference, engagement and amnesia in three of the worldLs leading states. As we turn a new leaf to begin life in a new millennium, Laura Hein and Mark Selden are right to insist that all polities have some freedom to interpret the past, but that none can escape from it.-Peter J.Katsenstein, Cornell UniversityL 3.LIn the burgeoning field of war and memory,LCensoring HistoryLstands out for its shrewd attention to the topicLs comparative dimensions, to the complex international politics of memory, and to the next generationLs memory as shaped in the classroom. This is a fresh, important approach to the field.-Michael Sherry, Northwestern UniversityL 4.LCensoring HistoryLis a splendid contribution to our understanding of the uses and misuses of history. The great distinction of this edited collection lies in its incisive combination of comparative breadth, topical cohesion, and contemporary pertinence. By focusing on textbook treatments of World War II in Japan, Germany, and the United States, Laura Hein and Mark Selden have given us a pathbreaking new perspective on the creation of national identities and international misunderstandings.-John W.Dower, author of Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War IIL@„CONTENTS ^ PART I : Introduction - 1.The Lessons of War, Global Power, and Social Change (Laura Hein and Mark Selden) ^ PART II : Textbooks and Historical Memory - 2.The Japanese Movement to LCorrectL History (Gavan McCormack) 3.Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan : The New Neonationalistic Revisionism in Japan (Aaron Gerow) 4.Japanese Education, Nationalism, and Ienaga SaburoLs Textbook Lawsuits (Nozaki Yoshiko and Inokuchi Hiromitsu) 5.Identity and Transnationalization in German School Textbooks (Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal) 6.The Vietnam War in High School American History (James W. Loewen) 7.War Crimes and the Vietnamese People : American Representations and Silences (David Hunt) ^ PART III : Politics of the Classroom - 8.The Continuing Legacy of Japanese Colonialism : The Japan-South Korea Joint Study Group on History Textbooks (Kimijima Kazuhiko) 9.The Power of Selective Tradition : Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Holocaust Education for Youth in the New Germany (Gregory Wegner) 10.Teaching Democracy, Teaching War : American and Japanese Educators Teach the Pacific War (Kathleen Woods Masalski)) |
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