About the Book: Contesting History
Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative
applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the
meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black
examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national
collective memory and others and considers its fundamental significance in how
we understand the past. Moving from public life pre-1400 to the struggle of
ideologies in the 20th century and contemporary efforts to find meaning in
historical narratives, Jeremy Black incorporates a great deal of original
material on governmental, social and commercial influences