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The contested nation : ethnicity, class, religion and gender in national histories / edited by Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz.
Van Pelt Library D13.5.E85 C66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Writing the nation : national historiographies and the making of nation states in 19th and 20th century Europe.
- Writing the nation : national historiographies and the making of nation states in 19th and 20th century Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Historiography.
- Europe.
- Historiography.
- Historiography--Europe.
- National characteristics, European.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 634 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- How did national histories in Europe come into being and which of them were most successful in underpinning national identites? Who constructed the narratives of 'the nation' and why were they accepted, rejected or contested? How did the discourse of 'the nation' integrate narratives of ethnicity, race, class, religion and gender? This volume provides answers to these questions in a truly comparative and transnational way. It highlights how ideas and cultural practices travelled across national boundaries, analyzing, among other things, the formative influence of religious storylines (for example, 'The Promised Land' and 'Birth, Death, and Resurrection') on national narratives. It also explains why and how so many national histories in Europe portrayed other nations as their particular enemies, thus uncovering the intricate interrelationships between separate national histories and highlighting the role their writers have played in paving the conflict-ridden and bloody road to a united Europe in the 21st Century.
- Contents:
- Maps of Europe 1789-2005 xvii
- 1 Introduction: National History Writing in Europe in a Global Age / Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz 1
- 2 Representations of Identity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender and Religion. An Introduction to Conceptual History / Chris Lorenz 24
- 3 The Metaphor of the Master: 'Narrative Hierarchy' in National Historical Cultures of Europe / Krijn Thijs 60
- 4 Nation and Ethnicity / Joep Leerssen 75
- 5 Religion, Nation and European Representations of the Past / James C. Kennedy 104
- 6 The 'Nation' and 'Class': European National Master-Narratives and Their Social 'Other' / Gita Deneckere, Thomas Welskopp 135
- 7 Where Are Women in National Histories? / Jitka Maleckova 171
- 8 National Historians and the Discourse of the Other: France and Germany / Hugo Frey, Stefan Jordan 200
- 9 Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender and the 'Island Story/ies': Great Britain and Ireland / Keith Robbins 231
- 10 Nordic National Histories / Peter Aronsson, Narve Fulsas, Pertti Haapala, Bernard Eric Jensen 256
- 11 Weak and Strong Nations in the Low Countries: National Historiography and its 'Others' in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Marnix Beyen, Benoit Majerus 283
- 12 National Historiography and National Identity: Switzerland in Comparative Perspective / Guy P. Marchal 311
- 13 Portuguese and Spanish Historiographies: Distance and Proximity / Sergio Campos Matos, David Mota Alvarez 339
- 14 Habsburg's Difficult Legacy: Comparing and Relating Austrian, Czech, Magyar and Slovak National Historical Master Narratives / Gernot Heiss, Arpad v. Klimo, Pavel Kolar, Dusan Kovac 367
- 15 The Russian Empire and its Western Borderlands: National Historiographies and Their 'Others' in Russia, the Baltics and the Ukraine / Anna Veronika Wendland 405
- 16 Mirrors for the Nation: Imagining the National Past among the Poles and Czechs in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Maciej Janowski 442
- 17 National Historiographies in the Balkans, 1830-1989 / Marius Turda 463
- 18 History Writing among the Greeks and Turks: Imagining the Self and the Other / Hercules Millas 490
- 19 Narratives of Jewish Historiography in Europe / Ulrich Wyrwa 511
- 20 Conclusion: Picking up the Threads / Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz 531.
- Notes:
- "European Science Foundation."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-602) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780230500068
- 0230500064
- OCLC:
- 221962074
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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