Dark pasts : changing the state's story in Turkey and Japan

Dark pasts : changing the state's story in Turkey and Japan /

"Drawing on an in-depth, macro-historical analysis of the post-World War II trajectories of Turkey's narrative of the 1915-17 Armenian Genocide and Japan's narrative of the 1937-8 Nanjing Massacre, the book unpacks the complex processes through which international pressures and domest...

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Main Author: Dixon, Jennifer M. (Jennifer Margaret) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
Subjects:
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 > Historiography.
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 > Historiography.
Historiography > Political aspects > Turkey > History > 20th century.
Historiography > Political aspects > Japan > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : coming to terms with dark pasts
  • Changing the state's story
  • The Armenian genocide and its aftermath
  • From silencing to mythmaking (1950-early 1990s)
  • Playing hardball (1994-2008)
  • The Nanjing massacre and the second Sino-Japanese war
  • "History issues" in the postwar period (1952-1989)
  • Unfreezing the question of history (1990-2008)
  • Conclusion : the politics of dark pasts.

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