Robert Traba

The Past in the Present

The Construction of Polish History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What do we remember from our national past and why? What are the dangers of history being (mis-)appropriated by politicians? Past in the Present provides a critical analysis of recent disputes over Polish historiography. The author uses theories of collective memory as a guideline, and the Polish-German borderlands as his leitmotif. Western academic currents and long-standing (and often forgotten) Polish intellectual traditions serve as backdrop. Throughout his work - with topics ranging from Golo Mann and Stefan Czarnowski to the «other side of memory» and the «political cult of the fallen» - Traba advocates modernization and «polyphony» in the construction of a new Polish history.

Produktdetails

• Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies 8
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 264047
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9783631640470
• ISBN-10: 3631640471
• Artikelnr.: 42060265

Autorenporträt

Robert Traba is a Polish historian with broad interests in collective memory, applied history, and regional history, above all in the Polish-German borderlands. In 1990 he founded the Cultural Community Borussia in Olsztyn (Poland), whose focus is the regional history of Warmia/Masuria. Since 2006 he has been director of the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Polish Dilemmas: Practice and theory - Poles and Germans: Theory - Poles and Germans: The empirical world.

Rezensionen

«[...] the book is an invaluable resource for international scholars seeking to become familiar with some of the "greatest hits" of recent Polish memory research.»
(Ela Rossmiller, Pol-Int 2018)

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