Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Historiographies

Chapter 2 The Power of National Pasts: Writing National History in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe

Chapter 3 Seven Narratives in North American History: Thinking the Nation in Canada, Quebec and the United States

Chapter 4 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

Chapter 5 Writing the Nation in Australia: Australian Historians and Narrative Myths of Nation

Chapter 6 Between Myth and History: the Construction of a National Past in Modern East Asia

Chapter 8 Writing the Nation in the Arabic-Speaking World, Nationally and Transnationally

Chapter 9 Writing National and Transnational History in Africa: the Example of the ‘Dakar School’