The Nation, Europe, And The World

by Schissler, Hanna; Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu

• ISBN13: 9781571815507
• ISBN10: 1571815503
• Format: Paperback
• 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

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface	viii
Introduction: Teaching beyond the National Narrative	1	(12)
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Hanna Schissler
Part I: Europe Contested
Projections of Identity in French and German History and Civics Textbooks	13	(22)
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Teresa Bertilotti
Sabine Mannitz
Privileged Migrants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands: Return Migrants, Repatriates, and Expellees after 1945	35	(26)
Rainer Ohliger
What Counts as History and How Much Does History Count? The Case of French Secondary Education	61	(21)
Jacques E.C. Hymans
The Decline and Rise of the Nation in German History Education	82	(23)
Julian Dierkes
Part II: Europe Seen from the Periphery
Nation and the Other in Greek and Turkish History Textbooks	105	(17)
Vasilia Lilian Antoniou
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
``Europe'' in Bulgarian Conceptions of Nationhood	122	(16)
Tim Pilbrow
Learning about Europe and the World: Schools, Teachers, and Textbooks in Russia after 1991	138	(25)
Robert Maier
Europe in Spanish Textbooks: a Vague Image in the Space of Memory	163	(30)
Miguel A. Pereyra
Antonio Luzon
Part III: Global Frameworks and Approaches to World History
World History and General Education: How to Bring the World into the Classroom	193	(18)
Michael Geyer
Cartographies of Connection: Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Inter-Area History	211	(17)
Karen Wigen
World History: Making Sense of the Present	228	(19)
Hanna Schissler
Notes on Contributors	247	(6)
Index	253