Title Writing national histories : Western Europe since 1800 / Stefan Berger, Mark Donovan, and Kevin Passmore

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description xiii, 314 pages ; 25 cm Contents Pt. I. Comparative perspectives. Apologias for the nation-state in Western Europe since 1800 / Stefan Berger, 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 -- Pt. II. 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 -- Unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento : the case of Carlo Cattaneo / Martin Thom -- Pt. III. The 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 -- Pt. IV. Liberal democracy and antifascism (1918-45). Marc Bloch as a critic of historiographical nationalism in the interwar years / Peter Schottler -- From antifascist to Volkshistoriker : demos and ethnos in the political thought of Fritz Rorig, 1921-45 / Peter Lambert -- Reclaiming Italy? Antifascist historians and history in Justice and Liberty / Philip Morgan -- Pt. V. 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 -- Pt. VI. The Cold War years. Rebuilding France : Gaullist historiography, the rise-fall myth and French identity (1945-58) / Hugo Frey -- Dividing 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 -- Pt. VII. 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 -- Pt. VIII. Conclusion. Historians and the nation-state : some conclusions / Kevin Passmore, Stefan Berger and Mark Donovan Summary Covering the whole of Western Europe, the contributors to this study consider the ways in which individuals and groups have written history to legitimise the nation-state, whether fascist, socialist, communist or plain religious in the modern era Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Historiography. SUBJECT Europe -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103394 Europe -- History -- 1789-1900 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046 Europe -- History -- 1871-1918 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045713 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046 Europe -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687 -- 1889-1900 -- Historiography Europe -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045714 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046 Europe, Western http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003677 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046 Author Donovan, Mark, 1955- Passmore, Kevin. LC no. 98021825 ISBN 0415164265 (hb : alk. paper) 0415164273 (pb : alk. paper)

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