The Nation, Europe, And The World

by Schissler, Hanna; Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu; Schissler, Soysal; Siegfried, Schildt

• ISBN13: 9781571815491
• ISBN10: 157181549X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Textbooks in history, geography, and the social sciences provide important insights into the ways in which nation-states project themselves. Based on case studies of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, this volume shows the role that concepts of space and time play in the narration of "our country"and the wider world in which it is located. It explores ways in which in western European countries the nation is reinterpreted through European lenses to replace national approaches in the writing of history.

Table of Contents

Introduction : teaching beyond the national narrative	p. 1
Projections of identity in French and German history and civics textbooks	p. 13
Privileged migrants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands : return migrants, repatriates, and expellees after 1945	p. 35
What counts as history and how much does history count? : the case of French secondary education	p. 61
The decline and rise of the nation in German history education	p. 82
Nation and the other in Greek and Turkish history textbooks	p. 105
"Europe" in Bulgarian conceptions of nationhood	p. 122
Learning about Europe and the world : schools, teachers, and textbooks in Russia after 1991	p. 138
Europe in Spanish textbooks : a vague image in the space of memory	p. 163
World history and general education : how to bring the world into the classroom	p. 193
Cartographies of connection : ocean maps as metaphors for inter-area history	p. 211
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