Writing National Histories Western Europe Since 1800 |
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Editor:
| Berger, Stefan Donovan, Mark Passmore, Kevin |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-16426-9 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $212.00 |
Book Description:
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This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento * German historians as critics of...
More DescriptionThis book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of:
* history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France
* unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento
* German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism
* right-wing history writing in France between the wars
* British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan
* the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.