History and Belonging

Stefan Berger has been the Chairman of the Library Foundation of the Ruhr since 2011. He directs the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum, and previously held the position of Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.

• Introduction: Towards a ‘Europeanised’ European History?Caner Tekin and Stefan BergerChapter 1. Exhibiting Post-national Identity: The House of European HistoryDaniel RosenbergChapter 2. The European Union and the Historiography of European Integration: Dangerous Liaisons?Orianne CalligaroChapter 3. Representations of National Cultures vis-à-vis the ‘European’ at the European Union National Institutes for CultureClaudia SchneiderChapter 4. Europe – a Concept in its Own Right or an Intermediate State between National Traditions and Global Interrelatedness? Representations of Europe in Curricula, Textbooks and SurveysFalk PingelChapter 5. The Past in English EuroscepticismBen Wellings and Chris GiffordChapter 6. (Trans)national Memories of the Common Past in the Post-Yugoslav SpaceJelena DureinovićChapter 7. Disturbing Memories: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist History of EuropeClaudia WeberChapter 8. ‘Glorious, Accursed Europe’ – A Fictional Historian, Transcultural Holocaust Memory and the Quest for a European identityJudith MüllerChapter 9. Who Lost Turkey? The Consequences of Writing an Exclusionary European HistoryPaul  T. LevinChapter 10. Conceptualisations of Turkey’s Past in the European ParliamentCaner TekinConclusion: European and National Ways of Politicizing European HistoryStefan Berger and Caner TekinIndex