Ar times of national crisis, such as war or periods of post-war readjustment, historians are likely to find themselves under pressure to sentimentalize the story of their country's development- if necessary, with some disregard of the truth. The teaching of history can indeed be used for the training of loyal citizens if the story of one's country is truly one of which the pa- triot can be prou…
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Ance 21/08/24
Ance 21/08/24
The aim of History at the Universities is to provide clear and accurate guidance to those history courses which lead to a first degree or which form a major part of a degree course. No opinion is expressed of the quality of these courses, but all the entries have been checked and approved by the history departments of the universities and colleges. The Guide may not, however, remain entirely ac…
A T THE International Conference of Historians of Asia (IAHA) in Bangkok (1996), there was a panel on nation-building at which it was debated whether it was time for historians to write nation-building histories for Southeast Asia. This appeared rather unadventurous because in 1996 there was much more debate about globalization and transnational developments, even speculation about the end of n…
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Rondom 1900 en in het interbellum maakte Nederland in Frankrijk goede sier met Indië. De Nederlandse koloniale bijdragen aan de wereldtentoonstellingen in Parijs werden opvallend warm onthaald, zowel door het grote publiek. als door bekende Franse journalisten, schrijvers, weten- schappers en kunstenaars. Vooral de levende vertoningen de bewoonde Indische dorpen en de Javaanse dans en muzieksh…
IT is not surprising that Indonesia's attainment of independence has sharpened the general interest of Indonesians in their own history. The awakened sense of their own individuality as a nation has led many. searching for a clearer definition of that identity and for a deeper understanding of its development in time, to turn to the mirror of history. The developments of the last few years and …
T change, growth, and diversification, is today troubled by increas- ing doubts about its purposes and prospects. At the end of a pe- riod in which more historians produced more research in more fields than ever before, they stand wondering where the extraordinary boom of the postwar years had led them. It seems ironic that during the long decades of genteel poverty and painful maturation, even…