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Book SynopsisOn issues ranging from the Holocaust to Srebrenica, contemporary historians are being asked to serve as 'expert witnesses' to painful events in the recent past - in the courtroom and in the media. Leading historians from across Europe reflect upon their experiences in this emerging public role. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Harriet Jones, Kjell Östberg, and Nico Randeraad
1. The responsibility of the historian – Peter Mandler
2. Public uses of history in contemporary Europe – Klas-Göran Karlsson
3. Coming to terms with the (post-)colonial past in Belgium.The inquiry into the assassination of Patrice Lumumba – Georgi Verbeeck
4. The Bloody Sunday tribunal and the role of the historian – Paul Bew
5. Between scholarship and politics: experiences from the Commission on the Swedish Security Services – Karl Molin
6. Historical research where scholarship and politics meet. The case of Srebrenica – Hans Blom
7. Negotiated history? Bilateral historical commissions in twentieth-century Europe – Marina Cattaruzza and Sacha Zala
8. The Italo-Slovenian historico-cultural commission – Raoul Pupo
9. The state, the historians and the Algerian War in French memory, 1991–2004 – Raphaëlle Branche
10. The German historians’ debate about the upheavals of 1989 – Martin Sabrow
Conclusion – Harriet Jones, Kjell Östberg, and Nico Randeraad
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