The Contested Nation: Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories

by S. Berger (Editor), Lynn E Macbeth (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230500068
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/24/2008
Series:	Writing the Nation Series
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	634
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

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 LEERSSEN Professor 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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'This is a very valuable investigation of major themes and one that should be on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in the history of European historiography. there is no doubt that these essays will form a significant starting-point for further work. The team marshalled by Lorenz and Berger have done excellent work and their conclusions offer a fundamental reference-point for the study of national and transnational historiographies across the European continent.'

- Michael Bentley, University of St. Andrews on: H-Soz-u-Kult

'A very important contribution to our understanding of European history. It is a superb work and a valuable contribution to the European historiography and comparative history writing.'

- Jose Ricardo Martins, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil, in: Nations and Nationalism

' The history of historiography in Europe will have to take account of this book and its forthcoming companions. We stand at a transitional point between an older, much more linear narrative of the history of history and a much more difficult and complex, but surely more accurate version of the same story.'

- Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Canada on: H-Soz-u-Kult

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