Vorlesung: National Historiographies in Global Historical Perspective
Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger
10 - 12 Uhr,
Dienstag
| Veranstaltungs-Nr. | 270000 |
| Ort | HMA 30 |
| Beginn | 19.04.2016 |
This lecture course will compare the development of national history writing across five continents focussing on the modern period. It will ask about the institutional settings in which history writing took place and investigate the communities and networks that shaped national historiographies. It will also examine the relationship of national history writing with other spatial and non-spatial forms of history writing, including histories of ethnicity/ race, class, religion and gender as well as local/ regional and transnational history writing, i.e. imperial, continental and global/ universal history writing. The role of borders and borderlands in historical writing will be examined as it was often at the border that national history writing was at its most intense. Overall, this course will introduce students to the comparative history of historiography in relation to one of the most powerful forms of history writing – national history.
Einführende Lektüre:
- Stefan Berger (with Christoph Conrad), The Past as History. National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe, Basingstoke, 2015.
- Ilaria Porciani and Jo Tollebeek (eds), Setting the Standards: Institutions, Networks and Communities of National Historiographies, Basingstoke, 2013.
- Stefan Berger (ed.), Writing the Nation. A Global Comparison, Basingstoke, 2007.
Besonders zu beachten
The course will be held in English.It might make sense to take the lecture course in combination with the Hauptseminar on the writing of national histories in Europe.