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What do school history textbooks mean in the contemporary world? What issues and debates surround their history and production, their distribution and use across cultures? This volume brings together articles by authors from the United States, Italy, Japan, Germany, France, Russia and England, each piece drawing attention to a series of fascinating yet highly specific national debates. In this col... More

What do school history textbooks mean in the contemporary world? What issues and debates surround their history and production, their distribution and use across cultures? This volume brings together articles by authors from the United States, Italy, Japan, Germany, France, Russia and England, each piece drawing attention to a series of fascinating yet highly specific national debates. In this collection, perspectives on the place and purpose of school history textbooks are shown to differ across space and time. For the student or scholar of comparative education this compilation raises important methodological questions concerning the grounds and parameters upon which it is possible to make comparisons. CONTENTS: Jason Nicholls. Introduction. School History Textbooks across Cultures from the Perspective of Comparative Education; Stephen J. Thornton. What Is History in US History Textbooks? Luigi Cajani. Italian History Textbooks on the Brink of the Twenty-first Century; Masato Ogawa & Sherry L. Field. Causation, Controversy and Contrition: recent developments in the Japanese history textbook content and selection process; Falk Pingel. Reform or Conform: German reunification and its consequences for history schoolbooks and curricula; Marina Erokhina & Alexander Shevyrev. Old Heritage and New Trends: school history textbooks in Russia; Keith Crawford & Stuart Foster. The Political Economy of History Textbook Publishing in England; Marie-Christine Baqu�s. History Textbooks in France: between national institutions, publishers and teaching practice.

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