Autobiografii ale naţiunii: cauze şi urmări ale Primului Război Mondial în manuale româneşti şi germane de istorie
Autobiographies of the nation: causes and consequences of the First World War in the Romanian and German history manuals

Summary/Abstract: History handbooks reconstruct the dominant narrative as one of the central manifestations of historical culture. They provide more than a perspective of the historical concepts, ideas and objectives of the educational policy of those authors. History handbooks disseminate the patterns of past perception and interpretation, which are essential for a society and for the field of the policy in question. In their turn, handbooks contribute to the creation, consolidation or influence of certain images on history. In this text, my purpose was to analyze the perception of the year 1918 and the emergence of the new state titled “the Greater Romania” in various Romanian history handbooks selected from the interwar period, the communist period and the period after 1989. What meaning is ascribed to 1918 in those notebooks? I will focus on the various interpretations, highlights, changes or omissions. The analysis may help outlining the various perceptions of history in the handbooks that influenced entire generations.

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