Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe (Writing the Nation)

by Stefan Berger (Editor)

Other authorsChris Lorenz (Editor)
PDF, 2010

Publication

Palgrave Macmillan (2010), Edition: 2010, 561 pages

ISBN

1137428147 / 9781137428141

Notes

CONTENTS
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic
Double Trouble: a Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and Quebec
Setting the Scene for National History; J.Leerssen A Strained Relationship: Epistemology and Historiography in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Germany and Britain
Wars of Religion in National History Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: P. J. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse and Henri Pirenne
Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet's Joan of Arc and FrantiA!ek Palacku's John Hus
History and Politics: Interpretations of Early Modern Conquest and Reformation in Victorian Ireland
Narrating the Building of a Small Nation: Divergence and Convergence in the Historiography of the Estonian 'National Awakening', 1868-2005
Theorizing and Practicing 'Scientific' History in South-Eastern Europe (19th-20th c.): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga
Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland
Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of 'High Imperialism' in the British and Russian Empires
Inside-out: the Purposes of Form in Friedrich Meinecke's and Robert Aron's Explanations of National Disaster
Ends of Empire: Decolonising the Nation in British and French Historiography
Clio and Class Struggle in Socialist Histories of the Nation: A Comparison of Robert Grimm's and Eduard Bernstein's Writings, 1910-1920
Rewriting National History in Post-War Central Europe: Marxist Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Narratives
Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula SzekfA and Benedetto Croce
After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch
The Lombard League in nineteenth-century historiography, c.1800-c.1850
History of Civilisation: Transnational or Postimperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870-1930)
Rising Like a Phoenix!The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s
Myth in the Writing of European History
The Nation, Progress, and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe
Notes
Index
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