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Regardless of rumors to the contrary, the state, as indirectly seen through these chapters, would appear to be surviving, maybe thriving. This volume has considered ways in which school textbooks reflect what we have called the imagination of the nation in 14 national contexts. We have taken as axiomatic that school textbooks, especially in the identity-related subject areas of civics, history, geography, or in subjects that can be used in mobilizing and shaping identity, serve political as well as instructional purposes.
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Williams, J.H. (2014). School Textbooks and the State of the State. In: Williams, J.H. (eds) (Re)Constructing Memory. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1_17
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