History Wars and the Classroom
Global Perspectives
Tony Taylor editor Robert Guyver editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Inc
Published:6th Dec '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the 'Black Armband' and 'Whitewash' factions in Australia who adopt opposingly celebratory or denigratory views of Australian history, especially when evaluating episodes of poor racial relations. There are also tensions between traditional/patriotic views of history teaching and reformed or 'new' history. There are issues of political control of the curriculum and parallel issues of who writes it (very topical in England at the moment over two expat 'big picture' historians who work at Harvard and Columbia (Niall Ferguson and Simon Schama)).
ISBN: 9781617355271
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
Weight: 499g
228 pages