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The Last Word?: Essays on Official History in the United States and British Commonwealth (Contributions to the Study of World History)
The Last Word Essays on Official History in the United States and British Commonwealth - Contributions to the Study of World History Author:Jeffrey Grey Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the course of the twentieth century, lo... more »oking at the ways in which they developed and the contributions each made to their respective national historiography. The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies.« less