Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Nationalism and the Making of National Pasts....Pages 7-28
The Comparative History of National Historiographies in Europe: Some Methodological Reflections and Preliminary Results....Pages 29-45
‘Colonising’ The Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey....Pages 46-61
The Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe....Pages 62-76
Beginning the World over Again: Past and Future in American Nationalism....Pages 77-92
Rediscovering Columbus in Nineteenth-Century American Textbooks....Pages 93-110
Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Mexico....Pages 111-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Eternal France: Crisis and National Self-Perception in France, 1870–2005....Pages 139-156
Cuisine, Nationality and the Making of a National Meal: The English Breakfast....Pages 157-171
National Restoration and Moral Renewal: The Dialectics of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Israel....Pages 172-188
Crafting Iranian Nationalism: Intersectionality of Aryanism, Westernism and Islamism....Pages 189-203
The Union Des Populations Du Cameroun, from Vilification to National Recognition: The Evolution of State Discourses on the Nationalist Political Party in Post-Colonial Cameroon....Pages 204-222
Refashioning Sub-National Pasts for Post-National Futures: The Xhosa Cattle Killing in Recent South African Literature....Pages 223-236
A Season of War: Warriors, Veterans and Warfare in American Nationalism....Pages 237-254
Sinocentricism and the National Question in China....Pages 255-273
Nation, History, Museum: The Politics of the Past at the National Museum of Australia....Pages 274-288
Conclusion....Pages 289-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-295