Writing the Nation: A Global PerspectiveThis book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization. |
Contents
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Writing National History in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Europe | 30 |
Thinking the Nation in Canada Quebec and the United States | 63 |
the Invention of a National Identity in Brazil and its Contrasts with Similar Enterprises in Mexico and Argentina | 84 |
Australian Historians and Narrative Myths of Nation | 103 |
the Construction of a National Past in Modern East Asia | 126 |
Communalism and Historiography | 155 |
8 Writing the Nation in the ArabicSpeaking World Nationally and Transnationally | 179 |
the Example of the Dakar School | 197 |
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