Denial
History Betrayed
Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial.
About this Title
Denial investigates that baffling spectacle known as historical denial. Tony Taylor finds out what makes these deniers tick and delves into the pathology of deniers to prove that while each denial-provoking case may vary in character, the nature of historical denial itself remains relatively consistent.
Denial analyses six fascinating case studies in denialism, starting with Turkey and the Armenian question and ending with an Australian version of denial. It shows how historical denial aims to obliterate authentic accounts of the past to distract us from genuine historical understanding. In doing so, it betrays the people who inhabited the past, the work of genuine historians and the audience of history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Pathology of Historical Denial
1 Under Western Eyes: Armenian Massacres and Turkish Denial
2 Frauds and Fanatics: The Pathology of Western Holocaust Denial
3 A Culture of Denial: Explaining the Politics of Remembrance in Modern Japan
4 British Communism and Two Decades of Denial: From Moscow 1936 to Budapest 1956
5 Tales of Heartless Denial from the Balkans: Serbian Victimhood and Marxist Conspiracy Theories
6 Failing the Scholarly Test: Australian Denial and the Art of Pseudohistory
Coda
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Associate Professor Tony Taylor teaches and researches at Monash University. Between 1999 and 2000 he was Director of the Australian Government's National Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of History and was author of the Inquiry's report The Future of the Past. His report led to the establishment of the Commonwealth History Project (2001 to 2006). Between 2001 and 2007 he was Director of the National Centre for History Education.
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