Textbooks and War: Historical and Multinational Perspectives

Chapter 1. Introduction; Eckhardt Fuchs and Eugenia Roldán Vera.- Chapter 2. The Representation of War and Peace under the Government of King Leopold I (1831-65) in Belgian Textbooks for National History for Secondary Education (1910-60); Jean Van Wiele.- Chapter 3. The Formation of the Armed Citizen in Colombia in the Nineteenth Century; Jorge Conde Calderon, Luis Alarcón Meneses.- Chapter 4. The US-Mexican War (1846-48) in School Textbooks: Mexico and the United States in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Eugenia Roldán Vera.- Chapter 5. The Impact of the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese War on Japanese and Chinese Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis; Limin Bai.- Chapter 6. The Teaching of the First World War through the History Textbooks of Secondary Education in Greece (1960-2010): Aims and Priorities; Efstratios Vacharoglou.- Chapter 7. A "Matter of the Whites"? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former Colonies in WWI; Denise Bentrovato and Imke Rath.- Chapter 8. In the "Spirit of Courage and Sacrifice": Shaping Collective Memories in School History Textbooks in Ontario, Canada (1921-2000); Rose Fine-Meyer.- Chapter 9. International Institutions, Pacifism, and the Attack on Warmongering Textbooks; Xavier Riondet and Rita Hofstetter.- Chapter 10. The School Uses of History: The Tangled Portrayal of the Spanish Civil War in History Textbooks (1970-98); Mariano Gonzalez Delgado, Manual Ferraz Lorenzo.- Chapter 11. The Representation of Wars in History Textbooks for Secondary Schools in the Soviet Union (1940-50); Dorena Caroli.- Chapter 12. Searching for "the Truth"? Narratives of the Second World War in Polish History Textbooks (1989-2015); Sylwia Bobryk.- Chapter 13. The Vietnam War (1954-75) in History Textbooks: A View from Two Sides; Tran Thi Vinh, Hoang Hai Ha and Tran Duc Tuan.