Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.

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ROBERT ALDRICH Professor of European History, University of Sydney, Australia MONIKA BAÁR Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of Groningen, the Netherlands JAN ECKEL Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Freiburg, Germany HUGO FREY Head of History, University of Chichester, UK EFFI GAZI Assistant Professor, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece JOERG HACKMANN DAAD Alfred Döblin Professor of East European History, University of Szczecin, Poland JOHN L. HARVEY Associate Professor of European History, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA JAN IFVERSEN Head of the Department of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark STEFAN JORDAN Permanent Research Fellow, the Historical Committee, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany ÁRPÁD VON KLIMÓ DAAD Visiting Professor for German and European History, the University of Pittsburgh, USA PAVELKOLÁ? Researcher, Centre of Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany DAVID LAVEN Senior Lecturer in Italian Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK MARINA LOSKOUTOVA Researcher, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia JOEP LEERSSEN Professor of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ANDREW MYCOCK Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Huddersfield, UK XOSÈ-MANOEL NÚÑEZ Full Professor of Modern History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain PETER SCHÖTTLER Director of Research, National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, France, and Professor of Modern History, Free University of Berlin, Germany STUART WARD Associate Professor, School of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark GENEVIÈVE WARLAND Teaching Assistant in Philosophy, Saint Louis University, Brussels, Belgium THOMAS WELSKOPP Professor for the History of Modern Societies, Bielefeld University, Germany.

Inhalt
Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Berger & C.Lorenz Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic; J.Eckel Double Trouble: a Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and Quebec; C.Lorenz Setting the Scene for National History; J.Leerssen A Strained Relationship: Epistemology and Historiography in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Germany and Britain; A.Epple Wars of Religion in National History Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: P. J. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse and Henri Pirenne; G.Warland Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet's Joan of Arc and Frantisek Palacky's John Hus; M.Baar History and Politics: Interpretations of Early Modern Conquest and Reformation in Victorian Ireland; M.Caball Narrating the Building of a Small Nation: Divergence and Convergence in the Historiography of the Estonian 'National Awakening', 1868-2005; J.Hackmann Theorizing and Practicing 'Scientific' History in South-Eastern Europe (19th-20th c.): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga; E.Gazi Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland; I.Pikkanen Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of 'High Imperialism' in the British and Russian Empires; A.Mycock & M.Loskoutova Inside-out: the Purposes of Form in Friedrich Meinecke's and Robert Aron's Explanations of National Disaster; H.Frey & S.Jordan Ends of Empire: Decolonising the Nation in British and French Historiography; R.Aldrich & S.Ward Clio and Class Struggle in Socialist Histories of the Nation: A Comparison of Robert Grimm's and Eduard Bernstein's Writings, 1910-1920; T.Welskopp Rewriting National History in Post-War Central Europe: Marxist Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Narratives; P.Kola? Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula Szekf? and Benedetto Croce; A.v.Klimo After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch; P.Schottler The Lombard League in nineteenth-century historiography, c.1800-c.1850; D.Laven History of Civilisation: Transnational or Postimperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870-1930); X-M.Nunez Rising Like a Phoenix...The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s; S.Berger Myth in the Writing of European History; J.Ifversen The Nation, Progress, and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe; J.L.Harvey Notes Index