This book deals with the challenges for history education arising from the centrality of colonialism in shaping the modern world. It breaks new ground by bringing together an international range of national studies on the legacies of colonialism that permeate the way how colonial history is thought and taught at schools. The case studies examine the representation, understanding and use of colonial heritage from different angles: They focus on European and non-European states as well as on states with and without colonial past as colonizers or colonized. Thus, and with its wide range of approaches ¿ postcolonial theory, memory studies, educational media studies, teaching practice ¿ this volume makes an essential research contribution to the ongoing international debate on the position of colonial history in present and future history education.

Susanne Popp is professor of Didactics of History at the University of Augsburg (Germany).
Katja Gorbahn is associate professor of German language, literature, and culture at the Aarhus University (Denmark).
Susanne Grindel is head of the staff unit `key issues¿ at the Philipps-University of Mannheim (Germany).

History education and (post-)colonialism - Discourses on colonialism - Teaching a common colonial past - South Africa's colonial historiography - Perspectives of colonist and colony - Cosmopolitanism - Postcolonial perspectives - Colonial complicity - 'Colonization' discourses - 'Empire' taught in English schools - Postcolonial people's history - Visual representations - The case of Vietnam