'Learn History!' Antiquity, national narrative and history in Greek educational textbooks

Hamilakis, Yannis (2002) 'Learn History!' Antiquity, national narrative and history in Greek educational textbooks. In, Brown, K.S. and Hamilakis, Yannis (eds.) The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories. (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) Maryland, USA. Lexington Books, pp. 39-67.

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Table of Contents:
The Cupboard of Yesterdays? Critical Perspectives on the Usable Past by K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis
I. Projects: The State in Action
1. Monumental Visions: the Past in Metaxas' weltanschauung by Philip Carabott
2. "Learn History!" Antiquity, National Narrative, and History in Greek Educational Textbooks by Yannis Hamilakis
3. The Politics of Currency: Stamps, Coins, Banknotes, and the Circulation of Modern Greek Tradition by Basil C. Gounaris
II. Fractures: Resisting the National Narrative
1. The Macedonian Question in the 1920s and the Politics of History by Patrick Finney
2. Recollecting Difference: Archive-Marxists and Old Calendarists in an Exile Community by Margaret E. Kenna
3. The Ethnoarchaeology of a "Passive" Ethnicity. The Arvanites of Central Greece by John Bintliff
III. Conversations: From Past to Present
1. Dimitris Pikionis and Sedad Eldem: Parallel Reflections of Vernacular and National Architecture by Eleni Bastéa
2. Spaces in Tense: History, Contingency, and Place in a Cretan City by Thomas M. Malaby
3. Poked by the 'Foreign Finger' in Greece: Conspiracy Theory or the Hermeneutics of Suspicion? By David Sutton

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