Nations and their Histories highlights the importance of the past and its uses in the formation of modern nations and national identities. The book looks at the construction of different national historiographies as well as present representations of the past in the political and cultural life of nations, covering the five continents. INDICE: Introduction; S.Carvalho ; F.Gemenne - PART I: NATIONAL HISTORIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONS - Nationalism and the Making of National Past;J.Breuilly - The Comparative History of National Historiographies in Europe; S.Berger - 'Colonizing' the Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey; S.A.Sofos ; U.Özkirimli - The Politics of Memorialization in Zimbabwe; T.Ranger -Beginning the World Over Again: Past and Future in American Nationalism; D.H.Doyle - Rediscovering Columbus in Nineteenth-Century American Textbooks; C.Cadot - Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Mexico; D.A.Brading - PART II: PRESENT REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIONAL HISTORIES - Eternal France: Crisis and National Self-Perception in France, 1870-2005; R.Gildea - Cuisine, Nationality and the Making of a National Meal: The English Breakfast; K.O'Connor - National Restoration and Moral Renewal: The Dialectics of the Past in the Emergence of ModernIsrael; A.Gal - Crafting Iranian Nationalism: Intersectionality of Aryanism, Westernism and Islamism; A.Kian ; G.Riaux - The Evolution of State Discourses on the Nationalist Political Party in Post-Colonial Cameroon; C.Nsoudou - Refashioning Sub-National Pasts for Post-National Futures; J.Wenzel - A Season of War: Warriors, Veterans and Warfare in American Nationalism; S-M.Grant - Sinocentrism and the National Question in China; E.Hyer - Nation, History, Museum: The Politics of the Past at the National Museum of Australia; B.Wellings - Conclusion; S.Carvalho ; F.Gemenne
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21860-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 09/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés