Synopses & Reviews
A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, this unique volume is part of Writing the Nation, a major international project.
About the Author
TIBOR FRANK is Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He has published widely on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography. His most recent monograph is
Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States 1919-1945 (Oxford, 2009).
FRANK HADLER is Research Coordinator and Project Director of the Geisteswissenschafliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) at Leipzig University, Germany. Publications on the history and culture of East Central Europe and the history of historiography inlclude most recently, Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe: Representations of Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918 (Leipzig, 2007).
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Contributors
Territories, Borders, Nations: Competing European Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction; T.Frank& F.Hadler
PART I: OVERLAPS ALONGSIDE STATE BORDERS
The Overlapping Histories of Sweden and Norway: The Union from 1814 to 1905; R.Björk
Conflicting Sovereignties: The Habsburg Monarchy in Hungarian Historiography; T.Frank
Supranationality and National Overlaps: The Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian historiography after 1918; W.Suppanz
German East or Polish West? Historiographical Discourses on the German-Polish Overlap between Confrontation and Reconciliation, 1772-2000; J.Hackmann
National History and Imperial History: A Look at Polish-Russian Historiographical Disputes on the Borderlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries; R.Stobiecki
The Great Netherlands Controversy: A Clash of Great Historians; N.van Sas
Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography; J.Barnai
PART II: OVERLAPS IN HISTORICAL REGIONS BETWEEN STATES
The Origins of the Eastern Border as the Grand Controversy of Finnish National History Writing; I.Liikanen
Schleswig and Holstein in Danish and German Historiography; U.Østergård
The Trophy of Titans: Alsace-Lorraine between France and Germany, 1870-1945; C.Fischer
The Legacy of Transylvania in Romanian and Hungarian Historiography; A.Ludányi
PART III: OVERLAPS OF ETHNIC GROUPS AND NATIONS WITHIN STATES
Arrested Development: Competing Histories and the Formation of the Irish Historical Profession, 1801-1938; C.Brady
The Czechs, Germans and Sudetenland: Historiographical Dispute in the ‘Heart of Europe; M.Repa
The Iberian Peninsula: Real and Imagined Overlaps; X.-M.Núñez
Overlapping National Historiographies in Bosnia-Herzegovina; R.Okey
Select Bibliographies
Index