TY - BOOK AU - Dixon,Jennifer M. TI - Dark Pasts: Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan SN - 9781501730252 AV - DS195.5 U1 - 956.620154 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 KW - Historiography KW - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 KW - Political aspects KW - Japan KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Turkey KW - Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 KW - Political Science & Political History KW - Security Studies KW - Sociology & Social Science KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) KW - bisacsh KW - Nanjing Massacre, Armenian Genocide, nationalism, East Asian politics, memory, transitional justice, state narratives, post-World War II N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acronyms --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Coming to Terms with Dark Pasts? --; 1. Changing the State’s Story --; 2. The Armenian Genocide and Its Aftermath --; 3. From Silencing to Mythmaking (1950–early 1990s) --; 4. Playing Hardball (1994–2008) --; 5. The Nanjing Massacre and the Second Sino-Japanese War --; 6. “History Issues” in the Postwar Period (1952–1989) --; 7. Unfreezing the Question of History (1998–2008) --; Conclusion: The Politics of Dark Pasts --; Appendix 1. Research Conducted --; Appendix 2. Turkish High School History Textbooks Analyzed --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - In Dark Pasts, Jennifer M. Dixon asks why states deny past atrocities, and when and why they change the stories they tell about them.In recent decades, states have been called on to acknowledge and apologize for historic wrongs. Some have apologized, while others have silenced, denied, and relativized past crimes. Dark Pasts unravels the complex and fraught processes through which state narratives of past atrocities are constructed, contested, and defended. Focusing on Turkey's narrative of the Armenian Genocide and Japan's narrative of the Nanjing Massacre, Dixon shows that international pressures increase the likelihood of change in states' narratives of their own dark pasts, even as domestic considerations determine their content. Combining historical richness and analytical rigor, Dark Pasts is a revelatory study of the persistent presence of the past and the politics that shape narratives of state wrongdoing UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501730252?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501730252 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501730252/original ER -