The Contested Nation

DAVID MOTA LVAREZ PhD Candidate, University of Salamanca, Spain PPETER ARONSSON Professor in Cultural Heritage and the Uses of History, Linkoping University, Sweden MARNIX BEYEN Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium GITA DENECKERE Associate Professor of Modern History, Ghent University, Belgium HUGO FREY Principal Lecturer and Head of History, the University of Chichester, UK NARVE FULSA...S Professor of History, the University of Tromso, Norway PERTTI HAAPALA Professor of Finnish History, the University of Tampere, Finland GERNOT HEISS Professor for Austrian History, the University of Vienna, Austria MACIEJ JANOWSKI Visiting Associate Professor, the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary BERNARD ERIC JENSEN Associate Professor of History and History Didactics, Aarhus University, Denmark STEFAN JORDAN Research Fellow, the Historische Kommissionbei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany JAMES KENNEDY Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands RP D V. KLIMO'Research Fellow, the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, University of Potsdam, Germany PAVEL KOLAR Research Fellow, the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, the University of Potsdam, Germany DUA AN KOV Ai Professor and Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia JOEP LEERSSEN Professor of European Studies, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands BENOAeT MAJERUS Research Assistant, the Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium JITKA MALEAiKOV Program Officer, the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, USA GUY P. MARCHAL Professor Emeritus, the University of Basel, Switzerland SAeRGIO CAMPOS MATOS Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Lisbon, Portugal HERCULES MILLAS Teacher, the University of Athens, Greece KEITH ROBBINS Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Bangor, UK KRIJN THIJS Postdoctoral Researcher, the Centre of Language and Identity, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands MARIUS TURDA Academic Fellow in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Bio-Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, UK ANNA VERNOIKA WENDLAND Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Department of History, Munich, Germany THOMAS WELSKOPP Professor for the History of Modern Societies, Bielefeld University, Germany ULRICH WYRWA Associate Lecturer, the University of Potsdam, Germany

This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.