Writing national histories : Western Europe since 1800 / [edited by] Stefan Berger, Mark Donovan, and Kevin Passmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Stefan.

Donovan, Mark, 1955-

Passmore, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Western--Historiography.

Europe, Western.

Europe--History--1789-1900--Historiography.

Europe.

Europe--History--20th century--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to ""legitimate"" the nation-state against socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism * right-wing history writing in France between the wars * British historiography from Maca

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Comparative perspectives; Apologias for the nation-state in Western Europe since 1800 STEFAN BERGER WITH MARK DONOVAN AND KEVIN PASSMORE; Nationalism and historiography, 1789 1996: the German example in historical perspective GEORG G.IGGERS; Literature, liberty and life of the nation: British historiography from Macaulay to Trevelyan BENEDIKT STUCHTEY; The age of bourgeois revolution; History as a principle of legitimation in France (1820 48) CERI CROSSLEY; National unification and narrative unity: the case of Ranke's German History PATRICK BAHNERS

Unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento: the case of Carlo Cattaneo MARTIN THOM The age of the masses; Taine and the nation-state STUART JONES; 'Prussians in a good sense': German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism, 1890 1920 ALASTAIR THOMPSON; The search for a 'national' history: Italian historiographical trends following unification MAURO MORETTI; Liberal democracy and antifascism (1918 45); Marc Bloch as a critic of historiographical nationalism in the interwar years PETER SCHTTLER

From antifascist to Volkshistoriker: demos and ethnos in the political thought of Fritz Rorig, 1921 45 PETER LAMBERT Reclaiming Italy? Antifascist historians and history in Justice and Liberty PHILIP MORGAN; Fascist historiography and the nation-state; Right-wing historiographical models in France, 1918 45 BERTRAM M.GORDON; German historiography under National Socialism: dreams of a powerful nation-state and German Volkstum come true HANS SCHLEIER; Gioacchino Volpe and fascist historiography in Italy MARTIN CLARK; The Cold War years; Rebuilding France: Gaullist historiography, the rise

fall myth and French identity (1945 58) HUGO FREY Dividing the past, defining the present: historians and national identity in the two Germanies MARY FULBROOK; A neglected question: Historians and the Italian national state (1945 95) ROBERTO VIVARELLI; Contemporary trends; Historians and the nation in contemporary France JULIAN JACKSON; Historians and the search for national identity in the reunified Germany STEFAN BERGER; Historians and the 'First Republic' CARL LEVY; Conclusion; Historians and the nation-state: some conclusions KEVIN PASSMORE WITH STEFAN BERGER AND MARK DONOVAN; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-71214-6

1-134-71215-4

1-280-33841-5

0-203-05363-X

0-203-27371-0

9780203053638

OCLC:

277603595