Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations

✍ Scribed by Susana Carvalho, François Gemenne

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume pinpoints the importance of history and its uses in the (re)formation of modern nations and national identities in a wide variety of countries, covering the five continents. It features contributions from some of the most prominent scholars in the field of nationalism such as Terence Ranger, Robert Gildea and John Breuilly.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations and Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
Part I: National Histories and the Construction of Nations......Page 22
1 Nationalism and the Making of National Pasts......Page 24
2 The Comparative History of National Historiographies in Europe: Some Methodological Reflections and Preliminary Results......Page 46
3 ‘Colonising’ The Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey......Page 63
4 The Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe......Page 79
5 Beginning the World over Again: Past and Future in American Nationalism......Page 94
6 Rediscovering Columbus in Nineteenth-Century American Textbooks......Page 110
7 Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Mexico......Page 128
Part II: Present Representations of National Histories......Page 154
8 Eternal France: Crisis and National Self-Perception in France, 1870–2005......Page 156
9 Cuisine, Nationality and the Making of a National Meal: The English Breakfast......Page 174
10 National Restoration and Moral Renewal: The Dialectics of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Israel......Page 189
11 Crafting Iranian Nationalism: Intersectionality of Aryanism, Westernism and Islamism......Page 206
12 The Union Des Populations Du Cameroun, from Vilification to National Recognition: The Evolution of State Discourses on the Nationalist Political Party in Post-Colonial Cameroon......Page 221
13 Refashioning Sub-National Pasts for Post-National Futures: The Xhosa Cattle Killing in Recent South African Literature......Page 240
14 A Season of War: Warriors, Veterans and Warfare in American Nationalism......Page 254
15 Sinocentricism and the National Question in China......Page 272
16 Nation, History, Museum: The Politics of the Past at the National Museum of Australia......Page 291
Conclusion......Page 306
D......Page 308
I......Page 309
N......Page 310
S......Page 311
Z......Page 312