Screen LibraryWriting the nation A global perspective /
This 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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230223059 |
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This 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. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
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9780230008021 9780230223059 : 0230223052 : |
| CLC: | K06 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Historiographies-- S.Berger The Power of National Pasts: Writing National History in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe-- S.Berger Seven Narratives in North American History: Thinking the Nation in Canada, Quebec, and the United States-- A.Smith The Mirror of History and Images of the Nation: The invention of a national identity in Brazil and its contrasts with similar enterprises in Mexico and Argentina-- E.de Freitas Dutra Writing the Nation in Australia: Australian Historians and Narrative Myths of Nation-- M.Hearn Between Myth and H |