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

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by Routledge

394 Pages

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394 Pages

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National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many centuries,... Read more

National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: Introductory Remarks

Thomas Maissen

1. National Historical Master Narratives and War Museums in Contemporary Europe: A Comparative Analysis

Stefan Berger

2. Populism and Nationalism in Recent British Historiography

Michael Bentley

3. German National History in the Age of "Aufarbeitung"

Martin Sabrow

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

Chris Lorenz

5. Production and Politics of the National Narrative in France

Sébastien Ledoux

6. The Resilience of National Histories: "Two Spains" versus the Periphery?

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

7. Reflections on Swiss Historiography in Times of New Nationalism

Georg Kreis

8. Nation and the "Retrotopic" Politics of History in Poland

Miloš Řezník

9. "Politics of History" and Authoritarian Regime-Building in Hungary After 1990

Balázs Trencsényi

10. The Past that Never Left?: Nationalism, Historiography, and the Yugoslav Wars

Florian Bieber

11. The Ottomans and "My People": The Populist-Nationalist Discourse in Turkey Under the AKP Government

Tanıl Bora

12. Independence, Revolution, War, and the Renaissance of National History in Ukraine

Tanja Penter

13. Between "Europe" and Russian "Sonderweg", Between "Empire" and "Nation": Historiography, Politics of History, and Discussion within Society in Russia

Ekaterina Makhotina

14. Res Publica Historicissima: The Politics of History in Israel

Johannes Becke

15. National Pride versus Critical History: American Memory Wars

Konrad H. Jarausch

16. Memory, History, and the Politics of the Hindu Right

Neeladri Bhattacharya

17. Chinese National History: The Manchu-Qing in New Clothes

Hans van Ess

18. New Nationalism in Japan in the Twenty-first Century

Takashi Yoshida

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