Nationalizing the Past

Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe

S Berger editor C Lorenz editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:27th Oct '10

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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.

ISBN: 9781137428141

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545 pages