Hauptseminar: Writing National Histories – A European Comparison
Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger
14 - 16 Uhr,
Dienstag
| Veranstaltungs-Nr. | 270050 |
| Ort | GB 03/42 |
| Beginn | 12.04.2016 |
This seminar will explore the career of national history writing in Europe focussing on the modern period from 1750 to the present day. It will ask about the making of a profession and its interrelationship with nationalism. Why is it that national history writing dominated the field of history writing virtually everywhere in Europe throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? How were national narratives constructed? How contested were they? And what was the relationship between national historical narratives and political ambitions and movements? What role did states play in promoting national historiographies? And how could historians square their ideal of ‘objectivity’ with the partisanship towards ‘their’ respective nations? The seminar will encourage students to engage with different forms of history writing both in the past and the present and to treat historical writing as one form as constructing the past.
Einführende Lektüre:
- Stefan Berger with Christoph Conrad, The Past as History. National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe, Basingstoke, 2015.
- Ilaria Porciani and Lutz Raphael (eds ), Atlas of European Historiography. The Making of a Profession, 1800 – 2005, Basingstoke, 2010.
- Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz (eds), The Contested Nation. Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories, Basinstoke, 2008.