Edited by Niels F. May and Thomas Maissen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many centuries, expressesing the historical continuity of a homogeneous people and its timeless character. This people struggles for independence, guided by towering leaders and inspired by the sacrifice of martyrs. Unlike earlier forms of nationalism, the main enemies are no longer neighbouring states, but international and supranational institutions. To use national history as an integrative tool, new nationalists claim that the media and school history curricula should not contest or question the nation and its great historical deeds, as doubts threaten to weaken and dishonour the nation. This book offers a broad international overview of the rhetoric, contents, and contexts of the rise of these renewed national historical narratives, and of how professional historians have reacted to these phenomena. The contributions focus on a wide range of representative nations from around all over the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: Introductory Remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomas Maissen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. National Historical Master Narratives and War Museums in Contemporary Europe: A Comparative Analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefan Berger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Populism and Nationalism in Recent British Historiography<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Bentley<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. German National History in the Age of “Aufarbeitung”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin Sabrow<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. The Remarkable Persistence of the Ghost of a Nation: Contesting the Nation in Public and Historical Discourse in the Netherlands in the Twenty-First Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Lorenz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Production and Politics of the National Narrative in France<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u00e9bastien Ledoux<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. The Resilience of National Histories: “Two Spains” versus the Periphery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xos\u00e9 M. N\u00fa\u00f1ez Seixas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Reflections on Swiss Historiography in Times of New Nationalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n Georg Kreis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Nation and the “Retrotopic” Politics of History in Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n Milo\u0161 \u0158ezn\u00edk<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. “Politics of History” and Authoritarian Regime-Building in Hungary After 1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. The Past that Never Left?: Nationalism, Historiography, and the Yugoslav Wars<\/p>\n\n\n\n