Writing the Nation: A Global Perspective

by Stefan Berger

Book Overview

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 History: the Construction of a National Past in Modern East Asia; Q. E.Wang Writing the Nation in India: Communalism and Historiography; R.Seshan Writing the Nation in the Arabic-speaking World; B.Schaebler Writing National and Transnational History in Africa - the Example of the 'Dakar School'; I.Thioub Select Bibliography

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349283649
• ISBN13: 9781349283644
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"