Description for Nationalizing the Past
Hardcover. Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories. Editor(s): Berger, Stefan; Lorenz, Chris. Series: Writing the Nation. Num Pages: 561 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBAH; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 38. Weight in Grams: 942.
Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.
Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
546
Condition
New
Series
Writing the Nation
Number of Pages
545
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230237926
SKU
V9780230237926
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About N/A
ROBERT ALDRICH Professor of European History, University of Sydney, Australia MONIKA BAÁR Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of Groningen, the Netherlands JAN ECKEL Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Freiburg, Germany HUGO FREY Head of History, University of Chichester, UK EFFI GAZI Assistant Professor, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University ... Read more
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