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Online-Ressource (331 p.)
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9780415164269
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This book examines comparatively how the writing of history has been used to 'legitimate' the nation-state against socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Comparative perspectives; Apologias for the nation-state in Western Europe since 1800 STEFAN BERGER WITH MARK DONOVAN AND KEVIN PASSMORE; Nationalism and historiography, 1789 1996: the German example in historical perspective GEORG G.IGGERS; Literature, liberty and life of the nation: British historiography from Macaulay to Trevelyan BENEDIKT STUCHTEY; The age of bourgeois revolution; History as a principle of legitimation in France (1820 48) CERI CROSSLEY; National unification and narrative unity: the case of Ranke's German History PATRICK BAHNERS
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Unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento: the case of Carlo Cattaneo MARTIN THOMThe age of the masses; Taine and the nation-state STUART JONES; 'Prussians in a good sense': German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism, 1890 1920 ALASTAIR THOMPSON; The search for a 'national' history: Italian historiographical trends following unification MAURO MORETTI; Liberal democracy and antifascism (1918 45); Marc Bloch as a critic of historiographical nationalism in the interwar years PETER SCHTTLER
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From antifascist to Volkshistoriker: demos and ethnos in the political thought of Fritz ROrig, 1921 45 PETER LAMBERTReclaiming Italy? Antifascist historians and history in Justice and Liberty PHILIP MORGAN; Fascist historiography and the nation-state; Right-wing historiographical models in France, 1918 45 BERTRAM M.GORDON; German historiography under National Socialism: dreams of a powerful nation-state and German Volkstum come true HANS SCHLEIER; Gioacchino Volpe and fascist historiography in Italy MARTIN CLARK; The Cold War years; Rebuilding France: Gaullist historiography, the rise
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fall myth and French identity (1945 58) HUGO FREYDividing the past, defining the present: historians and national identity in the two Germanies MARY FULBROOK; A neglected question: Historians and the Italian national state (1945 95) ROBERTO VIVARELLI; Contemporary trends; Historians and the nation in contemporary France JULIAN JACKSON; Historians and the search for national identity in the reunified Germany STEFAN BERGER; Historians and the 'First Republic' CARL LEVY; Conclusion; Historians and the nation-state: some conclusions KEVIN PASSMORE WITH STEFAN BERGER AND MARK DONOVAN; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203053638
Additional Edition:
Print version Writing National Histories : Western Europe Since 1800
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English
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