Whose History? Essays in Perception

Today more than ever students and teachers should be better able to address questions of perspective with more original sources at their fingertips. Whose History? raises and addresses important questions about how history is perceived not only through aspects of historiography but by teachers deciding how and what to teach in this modern world.Chapters include: Colonial border manipulations and the poverty of archival records in Ikaleland south east Yorubaland Nigeria; Coming to terms with the past: Germany's changing view of the Second World War; Whose history? My history: History as a personal memory; Teaching history as an inter-cultural experience