Nationalizing the Past
Historians as Nation Buiders in Modern Europe

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction  Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz

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   Geneviève Warland

Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet’s Joan of Arc and František Palacký’s John Hus   Monika Baár

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 ʿNational Awakeningʾ, 1868–2005   Jörg Hackmann

Theorizing and Practising  ʿScientificʾ History in South-Eastern Europe (Nineteenth-Twentieth Century): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga   Effi Gazi

Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland   Ilona Pikannen

Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of ʿHigh Imperialismʾ in the British and Russian Empires   Andrew Mycock and Marina Laskoutova

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 Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Naraaatives   Pavel Kolář

Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula Szekfű and Benedetto Croce   Arpád v. Klimó

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)   Xosé-Manoel Núñez 

After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch   Peter Schötter

Rising Like a Phoenix ... The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s   Stefan Berger

Myth in Writing of European History   Jan Ifversen

The Nation, Progress and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe   John L. Harvey