Description
Crimes against History
Author: Baets Antoon De
Language: EnglishSubjects for Crimes against History:
Keywords
Backfire Effect; Jian Bozan; Abuse of history; Malicious Prosecution; defamation; Hai Rui; censorship; Islamist Iconoclasm; subversion; Deng Tuo; archivists; Stalinist USSR; intimidation; Chinese Communist Party; self-censorship; Hitler; imprisonment; Adolf Hitler; political censorship; Fake News; Communist; Holds; China; Fake; USSR; Oyneg Shabes; Nazi; Ansar Dine; Romania; Hate Speech Bans; Poland; Von Rabenau; iconoclasm; Historical Analogies; South Africa; Genocide Denial; Cambodia; CNV; Rwanda; Chien Po Tsan; Afghanistan; Organization Of American States; Iraq; History Producers; historical parallels; Historische Zeitschrift; murder; Privacy Invasion; persecution; crimes against history; political leaders; Kill switch; political reasons; human rights
Publication date: 12-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages.
The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists being killed for political reasons, attacks by political leaders on historians, iconoclastic breaks with the past, and fake news. Part II,"Fragile freedom," reverses the perspective and examines how the censorship of history has backfired. Chapters consider the subversive power of historical analogies and resistance to the censorship of history. The book also contains a "Provisional memorial for history producers killed for political reasons (from ancient times until 2017)". It is a double tribute: to the history producers who were killed and to those who mustered the courage to resist the blows of censorship.
Part 1: Kill switch 1. Historians killed for political reasons 2. Archivists killed for political reasons 3. Public attacks of political leaders on historians 4. Iconoclastic breaks with the past 5. Fake news—the latest threat? Part 2: Fragile freedom 6. The subversive power of historical analogies 7. Resistance to the censorship of history
Antoon De Baets is professor of history, ethics, and human rights by special appointment of the Foundation Euroclio at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of 185 publications, including Responsible History, and the coordinator of the Network of Concerned Historians.