History is very important for nation building, specially when we are talking about independence. I have just finished an essay on 1857 which will be published this weekend where you will see how different people see the same event differently.
Here is an example of the fight over Greek History. The conservatives said that a textbook underplayed the suffering of the Greeks during the 1919 - 1922 war with Turkey where Greece was comprehensively trounced by the Great Kemal Ataturk and his army. The textbook also rephrased the role of the Church during the Ottoman Occupation. Interestingly enough, here is a view from Turkey.
If you are interested in textbook controversies, check out the Japanese cases, the Californian Hindu case, the interminable and yawn inducing evolution/ID textbook case.
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