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Denial: History Betrayed
Tony Taylor
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Description for Denial: History Betrayed
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HB; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 459.
Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial. Tony Taylor surveys major cases in 20th- and 21st-century historical denial that illustrate the nature of prejudice and how it relates to techniques of the instigators of denial, including their use of popular media and the Internet. Among the issues canvassed are denial and the Armenian atrocities as a governmental phenomenon; Holocaust denial in Australia and overseas as a racist phenomenon; Stalinist denial by Marxist historians post-1945 as an ideological phenomenon; Japanese ultra-nationalist denial from the 1960s to date as a cultural phenomenon; ... Read more
Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial. Tony Taylor surveys major cases in 20th- and 21st-century historical denial that illustrate the nature of prejudice and how it relates to techniques of the instigators of denial, including their use of popular media and the Internet. Among the issues canvassed are denial and the Armenian atrocities as a governmental phenomenon; Holocaust denial in Australia and overseas as a racist phenomenon; Stalinist denial by Marxist historians post-1945 as an ideological phenomenon; Japanese ultra-nationalist denial from the 1960s to date as a cultural phenomenon; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522854824
SKU
V9780522854824
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About Tony Taylor
Associate Professor Tony Taylor teaches and researches at Monash University. Between 1999 and 2000 he was Director of the Australian Government's National Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of History and was author of the Inquiry's report The Future of the Past. His report led to the establishment of the Commonwealth History Project (2001 to 2006). Between 2001 and 2007 ... Read more
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