Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic....Pages 26-48
Double Trouble: A Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and in Quebec....Pages 49-70
Setting the Scene for National History....Pages 71-85
A Strained Relationship: Epistemology and Historiography in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany and Britain....Pages 86-106
Wars of Religion in National History Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: P. J. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse and Henri Pirenne....Pages 107-127
Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet’s Joan of Arc and František Palacký’s John Hus....Pages 128-148
History and Politics: Interpretations of Early Modern Conquest and Reformation in Victorian Ireland....Pages 149-169
Narrating the Building of a Small Nation: Divergence and Convergence in the Historiography of Estonian ‘National Awakening’, 1868–2005....Pages 170-191
Theorizing and Practising ‘Scientific’ History in South-Eastern Europe (Nineteenth–Twentieth Century): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga....Pages 192-208
Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland....Pages 209-232
Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of ‘High Imperialism’ in the British and Russian Empires....Pages 233-258
Ends of Empire: Decolonizing the Nation in British and French Historiography....Pages 259-281
Inside-Out: The Purposes of Form in Friedrich Meinecke’s and Robert Aron’s Explanations of National Disaster....Pages 282-297
Clio and Class Struggle in Socialist Histories of the Nation: A Comparison of Robert Grimm’s and Eduard Bernstein’s Writings, 1910–1920....Pages 298-318
Rewriting National History in Post-War Central Europe: Marxist Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Narratives....Pages 319-340
Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula Szekfuű and Benedetto Croce....Pages 341-357
The Lombard League in Nineteenth-Century Historiography, c.1800–c.1850....Pages 358-383
History of Civilization: Transnational or Post-Imperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870–1930)....Pages 384-403
After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch....Pages 404-425
Rising Like a Phoenix … The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s....Pages 426-451
Myth in the Writing of European History....Pages 452-479
The Nation, Progress and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe....Pages 480-499
Back Matter....Pages 500-529