The contested nation: ethnicity, class, religion and gender in national histories

This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identityconstructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyzes their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion. STEFAN BERGER is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in the fields of nationalism and national identity studies, labour studies, and the history of historiography. His most recent monograph is 'Inventing the Nation: Germany' (2004). . CHRIS LORENZ is Professor of Philosophy of History at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He published predominantly on philosophy of history, historiography and on higher education policy. His book 'De Constructie van het Verleden' has been translated into German (1997) and will alsoappear in English and Chinese. . . INDICE: 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.Malecková - 'NationalHistorians and the Discourse of the 'Other': France and Germany; 'H.Frey' & '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 theLow 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.Kolár '& 'D.Kovác' - The Russian Empire and its Western Borderlands: National Historiographiesand 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, 1830b1989; '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' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30051-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés