Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe (Writing the Nation)

Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories. This Volume Compares How National Historians In Europe Have Handled The Opposing Pulls Of Fact And Fiction And Shows Which Narrative Strategies Have Contributed To The Success Of National Histories. Narrativizations Of The Past : The Theoretical Debate And The Example Of The Weimar Republic / Jan Eckel -- Double Trouble : A Comparison Of The Politics Of National History In Germany And In Quebec / Chris Lorenz -- Setting The Scene For National History / Joep Leersen -- A Strained Relationship : Epistemology And Historiography In Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-century Germany And Britain / Angelika Epple -- Wars Of Religion In National History Writing At The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century : P.j. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse And Henri Pirenne / Genevieve Warland -- Heretics Into National Heroes : Jules Michelet's Joan Of Arc And Frantisek Palacky's John Hus / Monika Baar -- History And Politics : Interpretations Of Early Modern Conquest And Reformation In Victorian Ireland / Marc Caball -- Narrating The Building Of A Small Nation : Divergence And Convergence In The Historiography Of Estonian 'national Awakening, ' 1868-2005 / Jorg Hackmann --^ Theorizing And Practising [i.e. Practicing]'scientific' History In South-eastern Europe (nineteenth-twentieth Century): Spyridon Lambros And Nicolae Jorga / Efii Gazi -- Theatre Histories And The Construction Of National Identity : The Cases Of Norway And Finland / Ilona Pikkanen -- Nation, State And Empire : The Historiography Of 'high Imperialism' In The British And Russian Empires / Andrew Mycock ; With Marina Loskoutova -- Ends Of Empire : Decolonizing The Nation In British And French Historiography / Robert Aldrich And Stuart Ward -- Inside-out : The Purposes Of Form In Friedrich Meinecke's And Robert Aron's Explanations Of National Disaster / Hugo Frey And Stefan Jordan -- Clio And Class Struggle In Socialist Histories Of The Nation : A Comparison Of Robert Grimm's And Eduard Bernstein's Writings, 1910-1920 / Thomas Welskopp --^ Rewriting National History In Post-war Central Europe : Marxist Synthese Of Austrian And Czechoslovak History As New National Master Narratives / Pavel Kolar -- Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited : A Comparison Of Gyula Szekfu And Benedetto Croce / Arpad V. Klimo -- The Lombard League In Nineteenth-century Historiography, C. 1800-c.1850 / David Laven -- History Of Civilization : Transnational Or Post-imperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870-1930) / Xose-manoel Nunez -- After The Deluge : The Impact If The Two World Wars On The Historical Work Of Henri Pirenne And Marc Bloch / Peter Schottler -- Rising Like A Phoenix ... The Renaissance Of National History Writing In Germany And Britain Since The 1980s / Stefan Berger -- Myth In The Writing Of European History / Jan Ifversen -- The Nation, Progress And European Identity In The Rise Of Modern Europe / John L. Harvey. Edited By Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz. Includes Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 11 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Introduction......Page 18 1 Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic......Page 43 2 Double Trouble: A Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and in Quebec......Page 66 3 Setting the Scene for National History......Page 88 4 A Strained Relationship: Epistemology and Historiography in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany and Britain......Page 103 5 Wars of Religion in National History Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: P. J. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse and Henri Pirenne......Page 124 6 Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet's Joan of Arc and František Palacký's John Hus......Page 145 7 History and Politics: Interpretations of Early Modern Conquest and Reformation in Victorian Ireland......Page 166 8 Narrating the Building of a Small Nation: Divergence and Convergence in the Historiography of Estonian 'National Awakening', 1868–2005......Page 187 9 Theorizing and Practising 'Scientific' History in South-Eastern Europe (Nineteenth–Twentieth Century): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga......Page 209 10 Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland......Page 226 11 Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of 'High Imperialism' in the British and Russian Empires......Page 250 12 Ends of Empire: Decolonizing the Nation in British and French Historiography......Page 276 13 Inside-Out: The Purposes of Form in Friedrich Meinecke's and Robert Aron's Explanations of National Disaster......Page 299 14 Clio and Class Struggle in Socialist Histories of the Nation: A Comparison of Robert Grimm's and Eduard Bernstein's Writings, 1910–1920......Page 315 15 Rewriting National History in Post-War Central Europe: Marxist Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Narratives......Page 336 16 Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula Szekfű and Benedetto Croce......Page 358 17 The Lombard League in Nineteenth-Century Historiography, c.1800–c.1850......Page 375 18 History of Civilization: Transnational or Post-Imperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870–1930)......Page 401 19 After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch......Page 421 20 Rising Like a Phoenix ... The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s......Page 443 21 Myth in the Writing of European History......Page 469 22 The Nation, Progress and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe......Page 497 Index......Page 517