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..".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." . 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." . H-Soz-u-Kult A sustained and
systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of
national histories across a wide variety of states is highly
topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating
processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as
demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only
been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a
number of different European nation states, the contributors to
this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation
of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the
European experience in a more global framework by providing
comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East
and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and
diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation."
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and
reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of
states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of
the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization.
However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of
course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on
studies from a number of different European nation states, the
contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of
the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they
contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by
providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the
Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex
variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a
nation.
Today's world is a world of nation-states; few have survived since
the early modern period, some have existed for three hundred years,
most came into being during the second part of the last century.
Yet the equation between the state and the nation does not go back
far in history, despite the prevailing tendency to view the state
as closely linked to ethnicity. To challenge the latter this book
attempts to examine statehood separately from the concept of
ethnicity; it asks what is non-ethnic about statehood by looking at
'statehood before and beyond ethnicity'. A non-ethnic statehood is
analysed in two forms: as a historical phenomenon at the time of
the emergence of the early modern state (Part One) and as a
historical tradition which had been pursued by the nation-builders
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Part Two). Instead of
looking at great powers as traditional models of statehood,
individual chapters focus on minor and less familiar states in
Northern and Eastern Europe from the period c. 1600-2000, including
Belgium, Bohemia, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania,
Poland-Lithuania, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden, Scotland and
Transylvania.
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