Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780199581184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str.

Monika Baar

Opis

Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Monika Baar discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century: Joachim Lelewel (Polish); Simonas Daukantas (Lithuanian); Frantisek Palacky (Czech); Mihaly Horvath (Hungarian) and Mihail Kogalniceanu (Romanian). Comparing their efforts to promote a unified vision of national culture in their respective countries, Baar illuminates the complexities of historical writing in the region in the nineteenth century.

Drawing on previously untranslated documents, Baar reconstructs the scholars' shared intellectual background and their nationalistic aims, arguing that historians on the European periphery made significant contributions to historical writing, and had far more in common with their Western and Central European contemporaries than has been previously assumed.

Recenzje

This compact, well-researched, and well-written work will be required reading for historians of both Western and Eastern Europe, as well as for those whose interests lie beyond the continent's borders. It forces us to put the continent back together.

O autorze

Monika Baár completed her D.Phil. at Oxford in 2002 and is currently the Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Groningen.