The Contested Nation

Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-30051-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Reihe: Writing the Nation

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, S.

Lorenz, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Maps of Europe 1789-2005 Introduction: National History Writing in Europe in a Global Age; S.Berger & C.Lorenz Representations of Identity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender and Religion. An introduction into conceptual history; C.Lorenz The Metaphor of the Master 'Narrative Hierarchy' in National Historical Cultures of Europe; K.Thijs Nation and Ethnicity; J.Leerssen Religion, Nation, and European Representations of the Past; J.C.Kennedy The 'Nation' and 'Class': European National Master-Narratives and Their Social 'Other'; G.Deneckere & T.Welskopp Where Are Women in National Histories?; J.Male?ková National Historians and the Discourse of the 'Other': France and Germany; H.Frey and S.Jordan Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender and the 'Island Story/ies': Great Britain and Ireland; K.Robbins Nordic National Histories; P.Aronsson, N.Fulsås, P.Haapala ,& B.Eric Jensen 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; M.Beyen & B.Majerus National Historiography and National Identity: Switzerland in Comparative Perspective; G.P.Marchal Portuguese and Spanish Historiographies: Distance and Proximity; S.Campos Matos & D.Mota Álvarez Habsburg's Difficult Legacy: Comparing and Relating Austrian, Czech, Magyar, and Slovak National Historical Master-Narratives; G.Heiss, Á.V.Klimó, P.Kolá? & D.Ková? The Russian Empire and Its Western Borderlands: National Historiographies and Their 'Others' in Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine; A.V.Wendland Mirrors for the Nation: Imagining the National Past among the Poles and Czechs in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; M.Janowski National Historiographies in the Balkans, 1830 1989; M.Turda History Writing among Greeks and Turks: Imagining the Self and the Other; H.Millas Narratives of Jewish Historiography in Europe; U.Wyrwa Conclusion: Picking up the pieces;S.Berger & C.Lorenz

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID MOTA ÁLVAREZ PhD candidate, University of Salamanca, Spain.
PPETER ARONSSON Professor in Cultural Heritage and the Uses of History, Linköping University, Sweden.
STEFAN BERGER Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, the University of Manchester, UK.
MARNIX BEYEN Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
GITA DENECKERE Associate Professor of Modern History, Ghent University, Belgium.
HUGO FREY Principal Lecturer and Head of History, the University of Chichester, UK.
NARVE FULSÅS Professor of History, the University of Tromsø, Norway.
PERTTI HAAPALA Professor of Finnish History, the University of Tampere, Finland.
GERNOT HEISS Professor for Austrian History, the University of Vienna, Austria.
MACIEJ JANOWSKI Visiting Associate Professor, the Central European Univeristy, Budapest, Hungary.
BERNARD ERIC JENSEN Associate Professor of History and History Didactics, Aarhus University, Denmark.
STEFAN JORDAN Research Fellow, the Historische Kommissionbei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany.
JAMES KENNEDY Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
ÁRPÁD V. KLIMÓ Research Fellow, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, University of Potsdam, Germany.
PAVEL KOLAR Research Fellow, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, the University of Potsdam, Germany.
DU AN KOVÁ? Professor and Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
JOEP LEERSSENProfessor of European Studies, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
CHRIS LORENZ Professor of Philosophy of History, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
BENOÎT MAJERUS Research Assistant,the Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
JITKA MALE?KOVÁ Program Officer, the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, USA.
GUY P. MARCHAL Professor Emeritus, the University of Basel, Switzerland.
SÉRGIO CAMPOS MATOS Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
HERCULES MILLAS Teacher, the University of Athens, Greece.
KEITH ROBBINS Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Bangor, UK.
KRIJN THIJS Postdoctoral Researcher, the Center of Language and Identity, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
MARIUS TURDA Academic Fellow in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Bio-Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
ANNA VERNOIKA WENDLAND Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Department of History, Munich, Germany.
THOMAS WELSKOPP Professor for the History of Modern Societies, Bielefeld University, Germany.
ULRICH WYRWA Aassociate Lecturer, the University of Potsdam, Germany.