Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. INTRODUCTION Historical Writing and Civic Engagement: A Symbiotic Relationship 1
4. CHAPTER 1 Engagement: Metahistorical Considerations on a Disputed Attitude in Historical Studies 33
5. CHAPTER 2 The Ideal of Justice and Its Significance for Historians as Engaged Intellectuals 44
6. CHAPTER 3 Committed Writing: History and Narrative Communication Revisited 63
7. Chapter 4 The Historian-King: Political Leaders, Historical Consciousness and Wise Government 79
8. CHAPTER 5 Historians with a Cause: Refugees’ Memory and Historical Practices in Interwar Greece 118
9. CHAPTER 6 The Making of the Zhanguo Ce Clique: The Politicization of History Knowledge in Wartime China 136
10. CHAPTER 7 The Historicization of World War II in Greece after the Civil War: Looking Back on the Public Debate over a Lecture by British Historian C.M. Woodhouse 151
11. CHAPTER 8 Historians as Dissidents: Intellectual ‘Eros’ in Action 163
12. CHAPTER 9 The Social Movement History as a Social Movement in and of Itself 185
13. CHAPTER 10 Professional Historical Writing and Human Rights Engagement in the Twenty-First Century: Innovative Approaches and Their Dilemmas 205
14. CHAPTER 11 Using the Past The Brazilian Cinema between Censorship and Representation 221
15. CHAPTER 12 Historians and the Trauma of the Past: The Destruction of Security Files on Citizens in Greece, 1989 237
16. CHAPTER 13 Historians and/in the New Media 250
17. CHAPTER 14 Street History Coming to Terms with the Past in Occupy Movements 261
18. AFTERWORD The Historian as an Engaged Intellectual: Historical Writing and Social Criticism – A Personal Retrospective 277
19. Index 301