The Contested Nation

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Maps of Europe 1789-2005 Introduction: National History Writing in Europe in a Global Age; S.Berger & C.Lorenz Representations of Identity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender and Religion. An introduction into conceptual history; C.Lorenz The Metaphor of the Master 'Narrative Hierarchy' in National Historical Cultures of Europe; K.Thijs Nation and Ethnicity; J.Leerssen Religion, Nation, and European Representations of the Past; J.C.Kennedy The 'Nation' and 'Class': European National Master-Narratives and Their Social 'Other'; G.Deneckere & T.Welskopp Where Are Women in National Histories?; J.Male?ková National Historians and the Discourse of the 'Other': France and Germany; H.Frey and S.Jordan Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender and the 'Island Story/ies': Great Britain and Ireland; K.Robbins Nordic National Histories; P.Aronsson , N.Fulsås , P.Haapala ,& B.Eric Jensen Weak and Strong Nations in the Low Countries: National Historiography and Its 'Others' in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; M.Beyen & B.Majerus National Historiography and National Identity: Switzerland in Comparative Perspective; G.P.Marchal Portuguese and Spanish Historiographies: Distance and Proximity; S.Campos Matos & D.Mota Álvarez Habsburg's Difficult Legacy: Comparing and Relating Austrian, Czech, Magyar, and Slovak National Historical Master-Narratives; G.Heiss , Á.V.Klimó , P.Kolá? & D.Ková? The Russian Empire and Its Western Borderlands: National Historiographies and Their 'Others' in Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine; A.V.Wendland Mirrors for the Nation: Imagining the National Past among the Poles and Czechs in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; M.Janowski National Historiographies in the Balkans, 1830 1989; M.Turda History Writing among Greeks and Turks: Imagining the Self and the Other; H.Millas Narratives of Jewish Historiography in Europe; U.Wyrwa Conclusion: Picking up the pieces;S.Berger & C.Lorenz