Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
1 Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic......Page 43
2 Double Trouble: A Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and in Quebec......Page 66
3 Setting the Scene for National History......Page 88
4 A Strained Relationship: Epistemology and Historiography in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany and Britain......Page 103
5 Wars of Religion in National History Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: P. J. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse and Henri Pirenne......Page 124
6 Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet's Joan of Arc and František Palacký's John Hus......Page 145
7 History and Politics: Interpretations of Early Modern Conquest and Reformation in Victorian Ireland......Page 166
8 Narrating the Building of a Small Nation: Divergence and Convergence in the Historiography of Estonian 'National Awakening', 1868–2005......Page 187
9 Theorizing and Practising 'Scientific' History in South-Eastern Europe (Nineteenth–Twentieth Century): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga......Page 209
10 Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland......Page 226
11 Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of 'High Imperialism' in the British and Russian Empires......Page 250
12 Ends of Empire: Decolonizing the Nation in British and French Historiography......Page 276
13 Inside-Out: The Purposes of Form in Friedrich Meinecke's and Robert Aron's Explanations of National Disaster......Page 299
14 Clio and Class Struggle in Socialist Histories of the Nation: A Comparison of Robert Grimm's and Eduard Bernstein's Writings, 1910–1920......Page 315
15 Rewriting National History in Post-War Central Europe: Marxist Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Narratives......Page 336
16 Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula Szekfű and Benedetto Croce......Page 358
17 The Lombard League in Nineteenth-Century Historiography, c.1800–c.1850......Page 375
18 History of Civilization: Transnational or Post-Imperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870–1930)......Page 401
19 After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch......Page 421
20 Rising Like a Phoenix … The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s......Page 443
21 Myth in the Writing of European History......Page 469
22 The Nation, Progress and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe......Page 497
Index......Page 517