Writing National Histories: Western Europe Since 1800

by Stefan Berger (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $47.81

  This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to legitimate the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of:
  * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France
  * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento
  * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism
  * right-wing history writing in France between the wars
  * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan
  * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.