TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert Traba
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653024357
TI  - The Past in the Present
T2  - The Construction of Polish History
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02435-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047456
N2  - What do we remember from our national past and why? What are the dangers of history being (mis-)appropriated by politicians? Past in the Present provides a critical analysis of recent disputes over Polish historiography. The author uses theories of collective memory as a guideline, and the Polish-German borderlands as his leitmotif. Western academic currents and long-standing (and often forgotten) Polish intellectual traditions serve as backdrop. Throughout his work – with topics ranging from Golo Mann and Stefan Czarnowski to the «other side of memory» and the «political cult of the fallen» – Traba advocates modernization and «polyphony» in the construction of a new Polish history.
KW  - polnische Geschichtswissenschaft, intellektuelle Tradition, deutsch-polnisches Grenzgebiet, kollektive Erinnerung
LA  - English
ER  -