The contested nation
Subtitle: ethnicity, class, religion and gender in national histories
By: [edited by] Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz.
Contributors: Berger, Stefan.; Lorenz, Chris, 1950-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9780230500068
Subjects: Historiography -- Europe; National characteristics, European; Other (Philosophy); Europe -- Historiography
Description: "How did national histories in Europe come into being and which were most successful in underpinning national identities? Who constructed the narratives of 'the nation' and why were they accepted, rejected or contested? How did the discourse of 'the nation' integrate narratives of ethnicity, race, class, religion and gender? 29 authors from 17 European countries provide answers to these questions in a truly comparative and transnational way. This book highlights how ideas and cultural practices travelled across national boundaries. It explains why and how so many national histories in Europe represented other nations as their special enemies. It thus uncovers the intricate interrelationships between national histories and highlights the role their writers have played in paving the conflict-ridden and bloody road to a united Europe in the 21st century."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: National history writing in Europe in a global age / Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz; title: Representations of identity : ethnicity, race, class, gender and religion : an introduction into conceptual history / Chris Lorenz; title: The metaphor of the master "narrative Hierarchy" in national historical cultures of Europe / Krijn Thijs; title: Nation and ethnicity / Joep Leerssen; title: Religion, nation, and European representations of the past / James C. Kennedy; title: The "nation" and "class" : European national master-narratives and their social "other" / Gita Deneckere and Thomas Welskopp; title: Where are women in national histories? / Jitka Malečkova; title: National historians and the discourse of the "other" : France and Germany / Hugo Frey and Stefan Jordan; title: Ethnicity, religion, class and gender and the "island story/ies" : Great Britain and Ireland / Keith Robbins; title: Nordic national histories / Peter Aronsson ... [et al.]; title: 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 / Marnix Beyen and Benoît Majerus; title: National historiography and national identity : Switzerland in comparative perspective / Guy P. Marchal; title: Portuguese and Spanish historiographies : distance and proximity / Sérgio Campos Matos and David Mota ĺvarez; title: Habsburg's difficult legacy : comparing and relating Austrian, Czech, Magyar, and Slovak national historical master-narratives / Gernot Heiss ... [et al.]; title: The Russian Empire and its western borderlands : national historiographies and their "others" in Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine / Anna Veronika Wendland; title: Mirrors for the nation: imagining the national past among the Poles and Czechs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Maciej Janowski; title: National historiographies in the Balkans, 1830-1989 / Marius Turda; title: History writing among Greeks and Turks : imagining the self and the other / Hercules Millas; title: Narratives of Jewish historiography in Europe / Ulrich Wyrwa; title: Picking up the pieces / Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz.