Nationalizing the past

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic

Chapter 3 Double Trouble: A Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and in Quebec

Chapter 4 Setting the Scene for National History

Chapter 5 A Strained Relationship: Epistemology and Historiography in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany and Britain

Chapter 6 Wars of Religion in National History Writing at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: P. J. Blok, Karl Lamprecht, Ernest Lavisse and Henri Pirenne

Chapter 7 Heretics into National Heroes: Jules Michelet’s Joan of Arc and František Palacký’s John Hus

Chapter 8 History and Politics: Interpretations of Early Modern Conquest and Reformation in Victorian Ireland

Chapter 9 Narrating the Building of a Small Nation: Divergence and Convergence in the Historiography of Estonian ‘National Awakening’, 1868–2005

Chapter 10 Theorizing and Practising ‘Scientific’ History in South-Eastern Europe (Nineteenth–Twentieth Century): Spyridon Lambros and Nicolae Jorga

Chapter 11 Theatre Histories and the Construction of National Identity: The Cases of Norway and Finland

Chapter 12 Nation, State and Empire: The Historiography of ‘High Imperialism’ in the British and Russian Empires

Chapter 13 Ends of Empire: Decolonizing the Nation in British and French Historiography

Chapter 14 Inside-Out: The Purposes of Form in Friedrich Meinecke’s and Robert Aron’s Explanations of National Disaster

Chapter 15 Clio and Class Struggle in Socialist Histories of the Nation: A Comparison of Robert Grimm’s and Eduard Bernstein’s Writings, 1910–1920

Chapter 16 Rewriting National History in Post-War Central Europe: Marxist Syntheses of Austrian and Czechoslovak History as New National Master Narratives

Chapter 17 Nineteenth Century Liberal Master Narratives Revisited: A Comparison of Gyula Szekfuű and Benedetto Croce

Chapter 18 The Lombard League in Nineteenth-Century Historiography, c .1800– c .1850

Chapter 19 History of Civilization: Transnational or Post-Imperial? Some Iberian Perspectives (1870–1930)

Chapter 20 After the Deluge: The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Historical Work of Henri Pirenne and Marc Bloch

Chapter 21 Rising Like a Phoenix … The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain since the 1980s

Chapter 22 Myth in the Writing of European History

Chapter 23 The Nation, Progress and European Identity in The Rise of Modern Europe