%0 Book %A Robert Traba %D 2014 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783653024357 %T The Past in the Present %B The Construction of Polish History %R 10.3726/978-3-653-02435-7 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047456 %X 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. %K polnische Geschichtswissenschaft, intellektuelle Tradition, deutsch-polnisches Grenzgebiet, kollektive Erinnerung %G English