History and belonging : representations of the past in contemporary European politics / edited by Stefan Berger and Caner Tekin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Stefan, editor.

Tekin, Caner, editor.

Series:

Making Sense of History: Studies in Historical Cultures ; Volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Europe.

Political culture.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Europe--Politics and government--20th century--Historiography.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]

Summary:

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.

Contents:

Exhibiting post-national identity: The house of European history / Daniel Rosenberg

The European Union and the historiography of European integration: Dangerous liaisons? / Orianne Calligaro

Representations of national cultures vis-a-vis the 'European' at the European Union National Institutes for Culture / Claudia Schneider

Europe - a concept in its own right or an intermediate state between national traditions and global interrelatedness? Representations of Europe in curricula, textbooks and surveys / Falk Pingel

The past in english euroscepticism / Ben Wellings and Chris Gifford

(Trans)national memories of the common past in the post-Yugoslav space / Jelena Dureinovic

Disturbing memories: Coming to terms with the Stalinist history of Europe / Claudia Weber

'Glorious, accursed Europe' a fictional historian, transcultural holocaust memory and the quest for a European identity / Judith Muller

Who lost Turkey? The consequences of writing an exclusionary European history / Paul T. Levin

Conceptualisations of Turkey's past in the European Parliament / Caner Tekin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785338816

1785338811

OCLC:

1041152907