Institutions, networks and communities "standardized" the historical discipline and profession in the nineteenth and twentieth century, in both the old and the new European nation states. This collection focuses on the growth of the infrastructure of historiography: the archives, journals, biographical dictionaries and the historical museums.

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MONIKA BAÁR Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands ERNST BRUCKMÜLLER Scientific Director of the Institute Austrian Historical Biography (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Vienna, Austria JEAN-PIERRE CHALINE Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History of the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France GABRIELE B. CLEMENS Chair for Modern History and Regional History at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany NEIL EVANS Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK IDESBALD GODDEERIS Associate Professor in the Subfaculty of History at the University of Leuven, Belgium FRANK HADLER Honorary Professor for Cultural History of East Central Europe at Leipzig University, Germany IRÈNE HERRMANN Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland GABRIELE LINGELBACH Full Professor of Contemporary Global History at Bamberg University, Germany MONIKA MANDELÍ?KOVÁ PhD student at Olomouc University, Czech Republic FRANZISKA METZGER Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland CLAUS MØLLER JØRGENSEN Associate Professor in Theory, Methods and History of Historical Science, Department of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark MAURO MORETTI Full Professor of Contemporary History at the Università per Stranieri in Siena, Italy JAN EIVIND MYHRE Professor of Modern History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, Norway MARY O?DOWD Professor of Gender History at Queen?s University Belfast EMMANUELLE PICARD Researcher at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon / Institut français d?éducation ATTILA PÓK Deputy Director of the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary ILARIA PORCIANI Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the History of Historiography at the University of Bologna, Italy LUTZ RAPHAEL Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier, Germany LLUÍS ROURA Y AULINAS Professor in the Department of Modern History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain DANIELA SAXER Researcher at the University of Zürich, Switzerland MARCELLO VERGA Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Florence, Italy TOM VERSCHAFFEL Professor of History at the University of Leuven, Belgium MICHAEL VÖSSING PhD student at the Historical Institute at the University of Mannheim, Germany

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List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective; J.Tollebeek & I.Porciani PART I 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse'. The Creation of National Archives; T.Verschaffel Monumental Undertakings. Source Publications for the Nation; D.Saxer Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus. National Historical Journals; C.M.Jørgensen The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts; M.Verga Exegi Monumentum. The Great Syntheses of National History; J.Tollebeek Nations on Display. History Museums in Europe; I.Porciani PART II In the Provinces. Local and Regional Learned Societies; J.Chaline Wishful Thinking. Academic Competitions in National History; M.Baár 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House'. Research Institutes and the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe; F.Hadler & A.Pók Serving the Profession. National Associations of Historians; G.Lingelbach & M.Vössing Places of Innovation and Exchange. The Extra-University Research Institutions for Historical Research; E.Picard & G.Lingelbach Militancy and Pluralism. Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945; L.Raphael Wider Connections. International Networks among European Historians; J.E.Myhre PART III A New Community of Scholars. The University Professors at Work; M.Moretti A Truculent Revenge. The Clergy and the Writing of National History; I.Herrmann & F.Metzger Bulwark of Traditions. The European Nobility and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century; G.B.Clemens Popular Writers. Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing; M.O'Dowd Striving for Visibility. Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States; E.Bruckmüller , N.Evans & L.R.Aulinas Living in the Past. Historians in Exile; M.Mandelí?ková & I.Goddeeris Concluding Remarks: Historians and the Web; I.Porciani & J.Tollebeek SelectedBibliographies Index of Persons