{"product_id":"teaching-a-dark-chapter-history-books-and-the-holocaust-in-italy-and-the-germanys-9781501775437","title":"Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeaching a Dark Chapter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist\/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths of little change until isolated \"flashpoints\" catalyzed the educational infrastructure into periods of rapid transformation.\u003c\/b\u003e Though these flashpoints varied among Italy and the Germanys, they all roughly conformed to a chronological scheme and permanently changed how each \"dark past\" was represented. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians have often neglected textbooks as sources in their engagement with the reconstruction of postfascist states and the development of postwar memory culture. But as \u003ci\u003eTeaching a Dark Chapter\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, textbooks yield new insights and suggest a new chronology of the changes in postwar memory culture that other sources overlook. Employing a methodological and temporal rethinking of the narratives surrounding the development of European Holocaust memory, Daniela R. P. Weiner reveals how, long before 1968, textbooks in these three countries served as important tools to influence public memory about Nazi\/Fascist atrocities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Fascism had been spread through education, then education must play a key role in undoing the damage. Thus, to repair and shape postwar societies, textbooks became an avenue to inculcate youths with desirable democratic and socialist values. \u003ci\u003eTeaching a Dark Chapter\u003c\/i\u003e weds the historical study of public memory with the educational study of textbooks to ask how and why the textbooks were created, what they said, and how they affected the society around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniela R. P. Weiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501775437","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42758889308297,"sku":"9781501775437","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a05f67db-0e19-47fd-ae0b-41fe1f52aa3e.jpg?v=1720497203","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/teaching-a-dark-chapter-history-books-and-the-holocaust-in-italy-and-the-germanys-9781501775437","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}