This work examines controversies over textbook content around the globe: how and why do specific representations of war evolve? What are the international and national forces affecting how writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? And how do these forces differ from country to country?

Part I: Introduction l. The Lessons of War, Global Power, and Social Change Part II: Textbooks and Historical Memory 2. The Japanese Movement to Correct History 3. Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neo-nationalistic Revisionism in Japan 4. Japanese Education, Nationalism, and Ienaga Saburo's Textbook Lawsuits 5. Identity and Trans-nationalization in German School Textbooks 6. The Vietnam War in High School American History 7. War Crimes and the Vietnamese People: American Representations and Silences Part III: Politics of the Classroom 8. The Continuing Legacy of Japanese Colonialism: The Japan-South Korea Joint Study Group on History Textbooks 9. The Power of Selective Tradition: Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Holocaust Education for Youth in the New Germany 10. Teaching Democracy, Teaching War: American and Japanese Educators Teach the Pacific War