Narrating the Nation

Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on 'Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history. Linas Eriksonas is Project Manager of the EU 6th Framework Programme project SAL ( Society and Lifestyles: Towards Enhancing Social Harmonization through Knowledge of Subcultural CommunitiesA"). Previously he was Project Coordinator for the European Science Foundation program Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century EuropeA". He is the author of National Heroes and National Identities: Scotland, Norway and Lithuania (Brussels, 2004). Andrew Mycock is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield. He was Programme Coordinator for the European Science Foundation project, Representations of the Past: National History Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesA", between 2006 and 2007. His doctoral thesis, currently being prepared for publication, provides a comparative analysis of the construction of post-imperial citizenship and national identity in the Russian Federation and Britain through the introduction of citizenship and history education programs.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other Genres Stefan Berger PART I: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO NATIONAL NARRATIVES Chapter 1. Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance Allan Megill Chapter 2. Drawing the Line: 'Scientific' History between Myth-making and Myth-breaking Chris Lorenz Chapter 3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative Mark Bevir PART II: NARRATING THE NATION AS LITERATURE Chapter 4. Fiction as a Mediator in National Remembrance Ann Rigney Chapter 5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe John Neubauer Chapter 6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after Waterloo Linas Eriksonas Chapter 7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of 'Generations' as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins Sigrid Weigel PART III: NARRATING THE NATION AS FILM Chapter 8. Sold Globally - Remembered Locally: Holocaust Cinema and the Construction of Collective Identities in Europe and the US Wulf Kansteiner Chapter 9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and Cinema Hugo Frey PART IV: NARRATING THE NATION AS ART AND MUSIC Chapter 10. From Discourse to Representation: 'Austrian Memory' in Public Space Heidemarie Uhl Chapter 11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of Nationalism Michael Wintle Chapter 12. The Nation in Song Philip V. Bohlman PART V: NON-EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON NATION AND NARRATION Chapter 13. 'People's History' in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology Peter Seixas Chapter 14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast Asia Jie-Hyun Lim Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

- an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting 'nationhood.' There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a 'transitional formulation' in Jaspers's sense of the term - [The volume] can thus be seen as a watershed book for our time, opening an avenue for a global historiography of 'in-common historiographical premises,' even as it insists on discerning the diverse and complex perspectives that constitute any particular study.A" * H-Net Habsburg The bulk of the analytical essays are well-written, informative and acute in pursuing the theoretical ambitions of the volume - Narrating the Nationis highly interesting and has a lot to offer. It is, at the same time, a focused and many-facetted volume, which everyone can draw inspiration from, both theoretically and thematically. Against this background, the book can be warmly recommended.A" * H-Soz-u-Kult