The contested nation
ethnicity, class, religion and gender in national histories
- ISBN: 9780230500068
- Editorial: Palgrave MacMillan
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Writing the nation series
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 634
- Idiomas: Inglés
Edited by Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz. How did national histories in Europe come into being and which were most successful in underpinning national identities? Who constructed the narratives of #the nation# and why were they accepted, rejected or contested? How did the discourse of #the nation# integrate narratives of ethnicity, race, class, religion and gender? This volume provides answers to these questions in a truly comparative and transnational way. It highlights how ideas and cultural practices travelled across national boundaries. Among others, it analyzes the formative influence of religious storylines on national narratives # like that of #The Promised Land# and that of #Birth, Death, and Resurrection#. The volume explains why and how so many national histories in Europe represented other nations as their special enemies. It thus uncovers the intricate interrelationships between national histories and highlights the role their writers have played in paving the conflict-ridden and bloody road to a united Europe in the 21st Century. 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 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
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
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.Kolár &--D.Kovác
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
Edited by Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz
