Postwar history education in Japan and the Germanys
Subtitle: guilty lessons
By: Julian Dierkes.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415553452; 9780203864586
Subjects: National characteristics, Japanese -- Study and teaching; National characteristics, German -- Study and teaching; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Germany; War and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; War and society -- Germany (East) -- History; War and society -- Germany (West) -- History; Japan -- History -- Study and teaching -- Japan; Germany -- History -- Study and teaching -- Germany (East); Germany -- History -- Study and teaching -- Germany (West)
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The determinants of portrayals of the nation in history education; title: The re-nationalization of history in East German education; title: Rationalizing portrayals of the nation in (West) German history education; title: Japanese bureaucrats and empiricist textbook historiography; title: Portrayals of the nation in Japanese and German history education explained.