The Past as History

National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-230-50009-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1039 g

Reihe: Writing the Nation

The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, S.

Conrad, C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Constructing the Nation Through History 2. National History Before the Nation State from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 3. The Invention of European National Traditions During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 4. Scientificity and Historiographical Nationalism, 1850 1914 5. National Histories in and between the World Wars 6. National Histories from post-Second World War to post-Cold War 7. Conclusion What Balance Sheet and What Future for National Histories?

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, as well as Executive Chair of the Foundation Library of the Ruhr. Previously, he was Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester (2005 – 2011), and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan (2000 – 2005), UK. He has published widely on the history of historiography, national identity, memory history, and the history of social movements. 
 

Christoph Conrad is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, he lectured in history at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, where he also obtained his PhD. He has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, the EHESS in Paris, Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Cambridge. Apart from his expertise in the history of historiography, he has widely published on the comparative history of ageing and the welfare state.