The Contested Nation Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories
by Berger, Stefan; Lorenz, ChrisFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-01-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.
Author Biography
STEFAN BERGER is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester. He has published widely in the fields of nationalism and national identity studies, labour studies, and the history of historiography. His most recent monograph is Inventing the Nation: Germany (2004).
CHRIS LORENZ is Professor of Philosophy of History at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He published predominantly on philosophy of history, historiography and on higher education policy. His book De Constructie van het Verleden has been translated into German (1997) and will also appear in English and Chinese.
CHRIS LORENZ is Professor of Philosophy of History at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He published predominantly on philosophy of history, historiography and on higher education policy. His book De Constructie van het Verleden has been translated into German (1997) and will also appear in English and Chinese.
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | p. vii |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Maps of Europe 1789-2005 | p. xvii |
| Introduction: National History Writing in Europe in a Global Age | p. 1 |
| Representations of Identity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender and Religion. An Introduction to Conceptual History | p. 24 |
| The Metaphor of the Master: 'Narrative Hierarchy' in National Historical Cultures of Europe | p. 60 |
| Nation and Ethnicity | p. 75 |
| Religion, Nation and European Representations of the Past | p. 104 |
| The 'Nation' and 'Class': European National Master-Narratives and Their Social 'Other' | p. 135 |
| Where Are Women in National Histories? | p. 171 |
| National Historians and the Discourse of the Other: France and Germany | p. 200 |
| Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender and the 'Island Story/ies': Great Britain and Ireland | p. 231 |
| Nordic National Histories | p. 256 |
| 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 | p. 283 |
| National Historiography and National Identity: Switzerland in Comparative Perspective | p. 311 |
| Portuguese and Spanish Historiographies: Distance and Proximity | p. 339 |
| Habsburg's Difficult Legacy: Comparing and Relating Austrian, Czech, Magyar and Slovak National Historical Master Narratives | p. 367 |
| The Russian Empire and its Western Borderlands: National Historiographies and Their 'Others' in Russia, the Baltics and the Ukraine | p. 405 |
| Mirrors for the Nation: Imagining the National Past among the Poles and Czechs in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | p. 442 |
| National Historiographies in the Balkans, 1830-1989 | p. 463 |
| History Writing among the Greeks and Turks: Imagining the Self and the Other | p. 490 |
| Narratives of Jewish Historiography in Europe | p. 511 |
| Conclusion: Picking up the Threads | p. 531 |
| Selected Bibliographies | p. 553 |
| Index | p. 603 |
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