Writing the Nation A Global Perspective

by Berger, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9780230008021
• ISBN10: 023000802X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume takes an important step towards developing global perspectives on the history of national history writing. With chapters spanning five continents, contributors address a common framework which has been developed by the editor as part and parcel of his five-year European Science Foundation-funded project on the writing of national histories in Europe.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Power of National Pasts

Writing National History in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe

Seven Narratives in North American History

Thinking the Nation in Canada, Quebec, and the United States

The Mirror of History and Images of the Nation

The invention of a national identity in Brazil and its contrasts with similar enterprises in Mexico and Argentina

Writing the Nation in Australia

Australian Historians and Narrative Myths of Nation

Between Myth and History

the Construction of a National Past in Modern East Asia

Writing the Nation in India

Communalism and Historiography

Writing the Nation in the Arabic-speaking World

Writing the Nation in Persia/ Iran

Writing National and Transnational History in Africa

the Example of the 'Dakar School'

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Introduction

The Power of National Pasts

Writing National History in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe

Seven Narratives in North American History

Thinking the Nation in Canada, Quebec, and the United States

The Mirror of History and Images of the Nation

The invention of a national identity in Brazil and its contrasts with similar enterprises in Mexico and Argentina

Writing the Nation in Australia

Australian Historians and Narrative Myths of Nation

Between Myth and History:

the Construction of a National Past in Modern East Asia

Writing the Nation in India

Communalism and Historiography

Writing the Nation in the Arabic-speaking World

Writing the Nation in Persia/ Iran

Writing National and Transnational History in Africa

the Example of the 'Dakar School'

Select Bibliography

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