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 analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion. ÍNDICE: 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 b Narrative Hierarchyb 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 b Nationb and b Classb : European National Master-Narratives and Their Social b Otherb ; G.Deneckere & T.Welskopp - Where Are Women in National Histories?; J.MaleckovC! - National Historiansand the Discourse of the b Otherb : France and Germany; H.Frey and S.Jordan -Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender and the b Island Story/iesb : Great Britain and Ireland; K.Robbins - Nordic National Histories; P.Aronsson, N.FulsC%s, P.Haapala, & B.Eric Jensen - Weak and Strong Nations in the Low Countries: National Historiography and Its b Othersb 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 C lvarez - Habsburgb s Difficult Legacy: Comparingand Relating Austrian, Czech, Magyar, and Slovak National Historical Master-Narratives; G.Heiss, C .V.KlimC3, P.KolC!r & D.KovC!c - The Russian Empire and Its Western Borderlands: National Historiographies and Their b Othersb in Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine; A.V.Wendland - Mirrors for the Nation: Imaginingthe National Past among the Poles and Czechs in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; M.Janowski - National Historiographies in the Balkans, 1830b 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 -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-50006-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 656
• Fecha Publicación: 24/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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