Writing the Nation

Zusatztext

This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization.

Autorenportrait

STEFAN BERGER Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, the University of Manchester, UKELIANA DUTRA DE FREITAS Professor of History, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, BrazilMARK HEARN Post-Doctoral Fellow, the University of Sydney, AustraliaBIRGIT SCHAEBLER Professor of History and Chair of West Asian History, the University of Erfurt, GermanyRADHIKA SESHAN Lecturer in the Department of History, the University of Pune, IndiaALLAN SMITH Lecturer in History, the University of British Columbia, CanadaIBRAHIMA THIOUB Chair of the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, SenegalQ. EDWARD WANG Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University, USA

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