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Writing the Nation

A Global Perspective

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Stefan Berger

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Historiographies

    • Stefan Berger
    Pages 1-29

  3. The Power of National Pasts: Writing National History in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe

    • Stefan Berger
    Pages 30-62

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

    • Allan Smith
    Pages 63-83

  5. 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

    • Eliana Freitas de Dutra
    Pages 84-102

  6. Writing the Nation in Australia: Australian Historians and Narrative Myths of Nation

    • Mark Hearn
    Pages 103-125

  7. Between Myth and History: the Construction of a National Past in Modern East Asia

    • Q. Edward Wang
    Pages 126-154

  8. Writing the Nation in India: Communalism and Historiography

    • Radhika Seshan
    Pages 155-178

  9. Writing the Nation in the Arabic-Speaking World, Nationally and Transnationally

    • Birgit Schaebler
    Pages 179-196

  10. Writing National and Transnational History in Africa: the Example of the ‘Dakar School’

    • Ibrahima Thioub
    Pages 197-212

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-243
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This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization.

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'This is a fine work for introducing new historians to historiography and its nuances and complexities... Writing the Nation affirms the importance of history, not simply as a field of study, but also as an act, political or otherwise, that is crucial to the rationalising of socio-political economic formation in the modern age, and possibly before.' - Maghan Keita, English Historical Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Stefan Berger

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STEFAN BERGER Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, the University of Manchester, UK ELIANA DUTRA DE FREITAS Professor of History, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil MARK HEARN Post-Doctoral Fellow, the University of Sydney, Australia BIRGIT SCHAEBLER Professor of History and Chair of West Asian History, the University of Erfurt, Germany RADHIKA SESHAN Lecturer in the Department of History, the University of Pune, India ALLAN SMITH Lecturer in History, the University of British Columbia, Canada IBRAHIMA THIOUB Chair of the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal Q. EDWARD WANG Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University, USA

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