Setting the Standards

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective; J.Tollebeek & I.Porciani PART I 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse'. The Creation of National Archives; T.Verschaffel Monumental Undertakings. Source Publications for the Nation; D.Saxer Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus. National Historical Journals; C.M.Jørgensen The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts; M.Verga Exegi Monumentum. The Great Syntheses of National History; J.Tollebeek Nations on Display. History Museums in Europe; I.Porciani PART II In the Provinces. Local and Regional Learned Societies; J.Chaline Wishful Thinking. Academic Competitions in National History; M.Baár 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House'. Research Institutes and the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe; F.Hadler & A.Pók Serving the Profession. National Associations of Historians; G.Lingelbach & M.Vössing Places of Innovation and Exchange. The Extra-University Research Institutions for Historical Research; E.Picard & G.Lingelbach Militancy and Pluralism. Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945; L.Raphael Wider Connections. International Networks among European Historians; J.E.Myhre PART III A New Community of Scholars. The University Professors at Work; M.Moretti A Truculent Revenge. The Clergy and the Writing of National History; I.Herrmann & F.Metzger Bulwark of Traditions. The European Nobility and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century; G.B.Clemens Popular Writers. Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing; M.O'Dowd Striving for Visibility. Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States; E.Bruckmüller , N.Evans & L.R.Aulinas Living in the Past. Historians in Exile; M.Mandelí?ková & I.Goddeeris Concluding Remarks: Historians and the Web; I.Porciani & J.Tollebeek SelectedBibliographies Index of Persons