History can be a controversial and sensitive subject. There is consensus about its importance, but not about what it is for. Is it simply a search for past societies, to exhibit the objective truth? Or is it a value-laden activity, whose priorities and content are inescapably affected by current social and political issues? Is it concerned with transmitting or examining values? This book examines these questions and puts forward several answers. Drawing on Council of Europe material, the author seeks to define Europe. The book was prompted by a symposium on "The Teaching of History in the New Europe".
- ISBN10 0304327786
- ISBN13 9780304327782
- Publish Date 31 December 1994
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 10 May 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Imprint Continuum (formerly Cassell Academic)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English