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
Should be back in stock very soon
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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