National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison

ISBN-13: 9780367520403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 384 str.

Niels F. May; Thomas Maissen

Opis

In most countries, national history has become a battleground in fields such as popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics. This book gives a broad international overview of the rise of renewed national historical narratives and the way professional historians react to them.

Spis treści

National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: Introductory Remarks  1. National Historical Master Narratives and War Museums in Contemporary Europe: A Comparative Analysis  2. Populism and Nationalism in Recent British Historiography  3. German National History in the Age of "Aufarbeitung"  4. The Remarkable Persistence of the Ghost of a Nation: Contesting the Nation in Public and Historical Discourse in the Netherlands in the Twenty-First Century  5. Production and Politics of the National Narrative in France  6. The Resilience of National Histories: "Two Spains" versus the Periphery?  7. Reflections on Swiss Historiography in Times of New Nationalism  8. Nation and the "Retrotopic" Politics of History in Poland  9. "Politics of History" and Authoritarian Regime-Building in Hungary After 1990  10. The Past that Never Left?: Nationalism, Historiography, and the Yugoslav Wars  11. The Ottomans and "My People": The Populist-Nationalist Discourse in Turkey Under the AKP Government  12. Independence, Revolution, War, and the Renaissance of National History in Ukraine  13. Between "Europe" and Russian "Sonderweg", Between "Empire" and "Nation": Historiography, Politics of History, and Discussion Within Society in Russia  14. Res Publica Historicissima: The Politics of History in Israel  15. National Pride versus Critical History: American Memory Wars  16. Memory, History, and the Politics of the Hindu Right  17. Chinese National History: The Manchu-Qing in New Clothes  18. New Nationalism in Japan in the Twenty-First Century.  Conclusion