The Powers of the Past: Reflections on the Crisis and the Promise of History.

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Part 1 The crisis of history: the crisis in education paradox 1 - the demand for the past paradox 2 - developments in historical studies historians responses to the crisis. Part 2 The crisis of the grand-governing narratives: postwar settlements and grant-governing narratives disruptions and discontinuities again, the crisis of history. Part 3 The use and abuse of the past: hegemony and history class war from above The New Right and the past Thatcher's and Reagan's raids on the past the New Right's historical-education projects. Part 4 The powers of the past: the end of history? the end of the Cold War, the triumph of capitalism and the present as the future ... breaking the tyranny of the present - recalling a vision of historical practice the powers of the past - perspective, critique, consciousness, remembrance and imagination making history - the question of the grand narrative, and critical history as historical criticism. Postscript - the South Korean episode.