Writing National Histories

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Writing National Histories is written by Stefan Berger and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134712146 (ISBN 10) and 9781134712144 (ISBN 13).

This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism * right-wing history writing in France between the wars * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.