| Abstrakt: |
20th-century experiences of political violence have motivated discussions about history as a field and about historians and their social functions. In Brazil, such reflections have been fostered by historiographic transformations and public debates about the country’s civil-military dictatorship (1964–1985). This essay explores some of the questions that this traumatic past raises for history and historians. Although inspired by the Brazilian case, it proposes various generalizations and comparisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
