History and nation
By: edited by Julia Rudolph.
Contributors: Rudolph, Julia, 1962-
Series: Aperçus; Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780838756409
Subjects: Historicism.; History -- Methodology.; Nationalism and historiography.
Description: "The essays in this volume reflect upon the activity of historians when they consider the relationship between history and nation, and they explore how early modern and modern historians have envisioned and theorized their own actions and impact. What are the conceptual tools historians use to investigate the history of nations? What is the political and ideological content of these tools? What role does language play in historical and cultural understanding? And what force does translation exert on the status of historical evidence? History and Nation explores such questions in a new consideration of historiography and methodology at a time when the concepts of both "history" and "nation" are in transition."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identity before identities: ethnicity, nationalism and the historian / Colin Kidd; title: "Without passion or partisanship": Florentine history in the age of Cosimo I / Ann Moyer; title: Whose centers and peripheries? Eighteenth-century intellectual history in Atlantic perspective / Jorge Canizares-Esguerra; title: Travel, geography, and the problem of belief: Locke as a reader of travel accounts / Daniel Carey; title: The treaty between histories / J.G.A. Pocock.