Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe

by Frank, Tibor; Hadler, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781137428134
• ISBN10: 1137428139
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, this unique volume is part of Writing the Nation, a major international project.

Author Biography

Tibor Frank is Professor of History at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published widely on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography, and his most recent monograph is Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States 1919-1945 (2009).

Frank Hadler is Honorary Professor for Cultural History of East Central Europe and Research Coordinator for Modern History at the Geisteswissenschafliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO), Leipzig University, Germany. He has published on East Central European history and historiography, and his most recent publications are Verflochtene Geschichten: Ostmitteleuropa (2010) and Approaches to Slavic Unity (2013).

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Illustrations and Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Contributors
1. Nations, Borders and the Historical Profession: On the Complexity of Historiographical Overlaps in Europe; T.Frank and F.Hadler
PART I: OVERLAPS ALONGSIDE STATE BORDERS
2. The Overlapping Histories of Sweden and Norway: The Union from 1814 to 1905; R.Björk
3. Conflicting Sovereignties: The Habsburg Monarchy in Hungarian Historiography; T.Frank
4. Supranationality and National Overlaps: The Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian Historiography after 1918; W.Suppanz
5. German East or Polish West? Historiographical Discourses on the German-Polish Overlap between Confrontation and Reconciliation, 1772-2000; J.Hackmann
6. National History and Imperial History: A Look at Polish-Russian Historiographical Disputes on the Borderlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries; R.Stobiecki
7. The Great Netherlands Controversy: A Clash of Great Historians; N.van Sas
8. Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography; J.Barnai
PART II: OVERLAPS IN HISTORICAL REGIONS BETWEEN STATES
9. The Origins of the Eastern Border as the Grand Controversy of Finnish National History Writing; I.Liikanen
10. Schleswig and Holstein in Danish and German Historiography; U.Østergård
11. The Trophy of Titans: Alsace-Lorraine between France and Germany, 1870-1945; C.Fischer
12. The Legacy of Transylvania in Romanian and Hungarian Historiography; A.Ludányi
PART III: OVERLAPS OF ETHNIC, NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS WITHIN STATES
13. Arrested Development: Competing Histories and the Formation of the Irish Historical Profession, 1801-1938; C.Brady
14. The Czechs, Germans and Sudetenland: Historiographical Dispute in the 'Heart of Europe'; M.Repa
15. The Iberian Peninsula: Real and Imagined Overlaps; X.-M.Núñez
16. Overlapping National Historiographies in Bosnia-Herzegovina; R.Okey
17. Eretz Israel - Filastin - The Holy Land: Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography; J. Barnai
Select Bibliographies
Index