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The Contested Nation

Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories

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Part of the book series: Writing the Nation (WTN)

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Keywords

  • Austria
  • Britain
  • empire
  • Europe
  • France
  • Germany
  • historiography
  • history
  • Judaism
  • nation
  • Russia
  • Ukraine

About this book

This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions 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.

Reviews

'This is a very valuable investigation of major themes and one that should be on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in the history of European historiography. there is no doubt that these essays will form a significant starting-point for further work. The team marshalled by Lorenz and Berger have done excellent work and their conclusions offer a fundamental reference-point for the study of national and transnational historiographies across the European continent.'

- Michael Bentley, University of St. Andrews on: H-Soz-u-Kult

'A very important contribution to our understanding of European history. It is a superb work and a valuable contribution to the European historiography and comparative history writing.'

- Jose Ricardo Martins, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil, in: Nations and Nationalism

' The history of historiography in Europe will have to take account of this book and its forthcoming companions. We stand at a transitional point between an older, much more linear narrative of the history of history and a much more difficult and complex, but surely more accurate version of the same story.'

- Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Canada on: H-Soz-u-Kult

About the authors

DAVID MOTA ÁLVAREZ PhD candidate, University of Salamanca, Spain. PPETER ARONSSON Professor in Cultural Heritage and the Uses of History, Linköping University, Sweden. STEFAN BERGER Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, the University of Manchester, UK. MARNIX BEYEN Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium. GITA DENECKERE Associate Professor of Modern History, Ghent University, Belgium. HUGO FREY Principal Lecturer and Head of History, the University of Chichester, UK. NARVE FULSÅS Professor of History, the University of Tromsø, Norway. PERTTI HAAPALA Professor of Finnish History, the University of Tampere, Finland. GERNOT HEISS Professor for Austrian History, the University of Vienna, Austria. MACIEJ JANOWSKI Visiting Associate Professor, the Central European Univeristy, Budapest, Hungary. BERNARD ERIC JENSEN Associate Professor of History and History Didactics, Aarhus University, Denmark. STEFAN JORDAN Research Fellow, the Historische Kommissionbei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany. JAMES KENNEDY Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ÁRPÁD V. KLIMÓ Research Fellow, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, University of Potsdam, Germany. PAVEL KOLAR Research Fellow, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, the University of Potsdam, Germany. DU AN KOVÁ? Professor and Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. JOEP LEERSSENProfessor of European Studies, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. CHRIS LORENZ Professor of Philosophy of History, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. BENOÎT MAJERUS Research Assistant,the Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. JITKA MALE?KOVÁ Program Officer, the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, USA. GUY P. MARCHAL Professor Emeritus, the University of Basel, Switzerland. SÉRGIO CAMPOS MATOS Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Lisbon, Portugal. HERCULES MILLAS Teacher, the University of Athens, Greece. KEITH ROBBINS Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Bangor, UK. KRIJN THIJS Postdoctoral Researcher, the Center of Language and Identity, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. MARIUS TURDA Academic Fellow in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Bio-Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, UK. ANNA VERNOIKA WENDLAND Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Department of History, Munich, Germany. THOMAS WELSKOPP Professor for the History of Modern Societies, Bielefeld University, Germany. ULRICH WYRWA Aassociate Lecturer, the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Contested Nation

  • Book Subtitle: Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories

  • Editors: S. Berger, C. Lorenz

  • Series Title: Writing the Nation

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-50006-8Published: 24 October 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30051-4Published: 24 October 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 634

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