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Beyond the Canon

History for the Twenty-first Century

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Maria Grever

    1. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

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  2. Siep Stuurman

    1. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Old Canons and New Histories

    1. Introduction: Old Canons and New Histories

      • Siep Stuurman, Maria Grever
      Pages 1-16

  3. The Framing of Historical Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Who Needs a Canon?

      • Peter Seixas
      Pages 19-30

    3. Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon

      • Maria Grever
      Pages 31-47

    4. From National Canon to Historical Literacy

      • Peter Lee
      Pages 48-62

    5. A Narrative that Encompasses Our History: Historical Culture and History Teaching

      • Kees Ribbens
      Pages 63-76

  5. Transmission of Historical Knowledge in Multicultural Settings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Museums, Heritage and the Transformation of South African Memory

      • Ciraj Rassool
      Pages 145-159

    3. ‘Internationalizing’ the Classic United States History Survey

      • Peter N. Stearns
      Pages 160-172

    4. French School History Confronts the Multicultural

      • Nicole Tutiaux-Guillon
      Pages 173-187

    5. Mission Interrupted: Gender, History and the Colonial Canon

      • Susan Legêne, Berteke Waaldijk
      Pages 188-204

    6. Disrupting the Canon: the Case of Slavery

      • Alex van Stipriaan
      Pages 205-219

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 220-221
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'Beyond the Canon' deals with recent politicized processes of canonization and its implications for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge and its consequences for the construction of narratives and the teaching of history in multicultural environments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Maria Grever, Siep Stuurman

About the editors

MARIA GREVER Professor of Theory and Methodology of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands HENDRIK HENRICHS Senior Lecturer in Cultural History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands ED JONKER Associate Professor of Historiography and Theory of History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands PETER LEE Senior Lecturer in History in Education, University of London, UK SUSAN LEGÊNE Head of the Curatorial Department of the KIT Tropenmuseum and Professor of Dutch Cultural History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands GEERTJE MAK Assistant professor of Gender History at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands CIRAJ RASSOOL Associate Professor of History, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa KEES RIBBENS Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands PETER SEIXAS Professor and Canada Research Chair in Education, the University of British Columbia, Canada PETER N. STEARNS Provost of George Mason University, USA ALEX VAN STIPRIAAN Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands SIEP STUURMAN Jean Monnet Chair of European History and European Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands NICOLE TUTIAUX-GUILLON University Professor in the University of Lille 3 - Charles De Gaulle, France BERTEKE WAALDIJK Professor of Language and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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