The last word? essays on official history in the United States and British Commonwealth
Title:
The last word? essays on official history in the United States and British Commonwealth
Author:
Grey, Jeffrey.
ISBN:
9780313052323
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 177 p.)
Series:
Contributions to the study of world history, no. 106
Contributions to the study of world history ; no. 106.
Contents:
Introduction / National Traditions -- Canadian Official Military History: The End of an Era? / Contested Histories: Official History and the South African Military in the Twentieth Century / 'Something of Them Is Here Recorded': Official History in New Zealand / Continuity and Change in the Australian Official History Tradition / Aspects of Official Histories of the Second World War -- Change Becomes Continuity: The Start of the U.S. Army's 'Green Book' Series / Gavin Long and History at the Australian War Memorial / Exploiting Enemy Records: The Enemy Documentation Section and the Official Histories of the Second World War / British Official Histories of the Air War / Setting the Historical Agenda: Webster and Frankland and the Debate over the Strategic Bombing Offensive against Germany, 1939-1945
Canadian official military history: The end of an era? / S.F. Wise.
Abstract:
Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the course of the twentieth century, looking at the ways in which they developed and the contributions each made to their respective national historiography. The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studi.
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