Overview
Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross-national angle of Popularizing National Pasts is apparent in the scope of its comparative project, as well as that of the longue duree it covers. Apart from essays on Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, the collection includes studies of popular histories in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, notably Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Armenia, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as considering the US and Argentina. Cross-national comparison is also a central concern of the thirteen case studies in the volume, which are, each, devoted to comparing between two, or more, national historical cultures. Thus temporality --both continuities and breaks- in popular notions of the past, its interpretations and consumption, is examined in the long continuum. The volume makes available to English readers, probably for the first time, the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism and culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Stefan Berger (University of Manchester, UK) ,
Chris Lorenz (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherands) ,
Billie Melman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Volume: 6
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.860kg
ISBN: 9780415894357
ISBN 10: 0415894352
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 18 April 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The individual essays are exciting, and offer a variety of new topics and methods that will greatly increase our understanding of the impact of the past on the historical and contemporary present. Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson University, USA
Author Information
Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester. His areas of research are modern and contemporary European history, comparative labor history, and nationalism and national identity studies. He is author of Inventing the Nation (2004) and co-editor (with Chris Lorenz) of The Contested Nation (2008). Chris Lorenz is Professor of Philosophy and Methodology of History at Leiden University and at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published predominantly on philosophy of history, modern historiography, and on modern educational policy. Billie Melman is Professor of Modern History, Henri Glasberg Chair of European Studies and Director of the School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her fields of teaching and research are British and Western European cultural and social history, popular culture, colonialism, and gender. She is author of The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past, 1800-1953 (2006).
